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THE 



CLASS OF 184 4, 



HARVARD COLLEGE, 



PREPARED FOR TfE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRADUATION. 



BY THE CLASS SECRETARY. 




CAMBRIDGE: 
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, 

PEIJITERS TO THE UNIVEKSITT. 
1869. 




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THE 



CLASS OF 184 4, 



HARVARD COLLEGE 



PREPARED FOR THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRADUATION. 



BY THE CLASS SECRETARY. 




CAMBRIDGE: 
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, 

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 

1809. 



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PREFACE 



THIS volume has been prepared in accordance with the fol- 
lowing vote of the Class, passed at their regular annual 
meeting on Commencement Day, 1868: — 

" Voted, That the Class Secretary be requested to address a cir- 
cular to the members of the Class, requesting them to communicate 
to him such information as they are willing to give as regards them- 
selves and their lives since graduation, and also in regard to other 
members of the Class, and that the same be prepared by him and 
printed, to be laid before the Class at its twenty-fifth Anniversary." 

The circular was issued on the 10th of October, 1868. In it 
the Secretary so far exceeded his instructions as to ask his class- 
mates for information with regard to their lives prior as well as 
subsequent to graduation, in order that the work w^hich he was 
charged with the duty of editing might present a complete history 
of the Class. He also requested each member to put his com- 
munication into the form in which he preferred that it should be 
printed, in order that the proposed work should constitute, as far 
as possible, a series of autobiographies. 

Replies to this circular were received from only a small number 
of the Class, and of this number a portion only furnished the full 
account of themselves which was desired. It was at first intended 
to print these replies precisely as they were received, thus carrying 
out the plan of making a series of strictly autobiographical sketches. 
But as their number proved in the sequel to be comparatively incon- 
siderable, and it appearing doubtful, on careful examination, whether 
more than one or two of them had been prepared by their authors 
in the form in which they would prefer to have them printed, it was 
thought best to recast them, at least so far as was necessary to give 



IV PREFACE. 

the completed work that air of homogeneousness which was desir- 
able. As much as possible, however, the words of the originals 
have been retained. 

In cases where no reply to the circular was received the Secre- 
tary has endeavored to supply the omission with such information 
as he could procure from other sources. Among those of which 
he has availed himself are " The Class-Book," in which every 
member who graduated with the Class, with but three exceptions, 
entered his name, and the date and place of his birth, seven only 
adding sketches of their early life ; the pamphlet prepared in 
1864 by Dr. Slade, together with letters received by him at 
that time from eight members of the Class, and since preserved 
with the records ; The Genealogical Register, Dr. Palmer's '' Ne- 
crology of the Alumni of Harvard College," and other similar 
works. The Secretary has also been much indebted to relatives 
and friends of deceased or absent members, and to Mr. Sibley, 
Librarian of Harvard College, and editor of the Triennial Cata- 
logue, to whom he owes much information otherwise unattainable, 
and many valuable suggestions. 

Of the several memoirs twenty-three were written substantially 
by the parties themselves ; viz. those of Baldwin, Bradford, 
Brooks, Codman, Dalton, Faulkner, Fuller (written for the Gene- 
alogical Register), Gould, Greeley, Hale, Hartwell (letter to Slade), 
Hoar (letter to Slade), Johnson, Morison, Noyes, Rogers, Sawyer, 
Sears, Sewall (letters to Slade and to Secretary), F. Smith, Tilton, 
Walker, E. Wheelwright. 

Four were written by other persons ; — that of Batchelder by 
his brother, Samuel Batchelder, Jr. ; Crowell, by P. H. Sears ; 
Lemmon, by R. M. Bradford ; and Lord, by his father, Melvin 
Lord. 

The remainder, thirty-four in number, were compiled by the 
Secretary ; sixteen of them with some assistance from the par- 
ties themselves, — viz. Baker (Class-Book), Blair (Class-Book), 
Capen, Chauncey (Class-Book and letter to Secretary), Dwight 
(letter to Slade), Francis, Harris, Hunt, Middleton, G. F. Park- 
man, F. Parkman, Peabody (Class-Book), Prescott, Saltonstall, 
Slade, Snow; and eighteen vi'iihoni such assistance, — viz. *Cary, 
Clarke, Dabney, *Davis, Farnsworth, ^Hildreth, *Hinds, Jones, 



PREFACE. V 

Lewis, Perry, Sayles, *J. B. Smith, *Stone, Treadwell, Wheat- 
land, H. B. Wheelwright, Wild. 

It was the Secretary's design that the memoirs of classmates who 
have died should, as a rule, occupy more space than the sketches of 
those who are still living. But he has not been able to carry out 
fully this intention. He regrets that he was unable to say more of 
Hildreth and Sayles, and especially that the account of Stone is 
not more full and complete. The recent date of Mr. Stone's death, 
and the diflEiculty experienced in obtaining information concerning 
him, owing to subsequent illness and death in his family, will, it is 
hoped, excuse this deiSciency. Mr. Fuller's death occurred when 
the memoir, prepared by himself a few years since for the Genea- 
logical Register, was already in print, and it was too late to add 
more than the simple announcement of his death. The memoir of 
Hinds is by far the longest in the book ; his service and death in 
the war, it was thought, would justify this distinction. That of 
Gary, owing to his early death, is naturally filled to a greater 
extent than any other with details of college life. It is chiefly 
compiled from " Recollections of George B. Gary, Jr., by Francis 
Parkman, Jr.," written in 1848 for Mr. Gary's mother, as well as 
from copies of some of Gary's letters, and information personally 
furnished by his relatives. The memoir of J. B. Smith is almost 
entirely derived from a sermon preached soon after his death by 
Rev. J. H. Hey wood, of Louisville, Ky., who also communicated 
by letter some additional facts. That of Whitcomb has been made 
up chiefly from the account of him given by his brother, soon after 
his death, to R. Godman, then acting as Glass Secretary pro tern. 
In the preparation of the memoir of Davis the Secretary has been 
greatly assisted by Judge Devens and by Hon. George T. Davis. 

The account of Perry has been compiled by the Secretary from 
the published Diplomatic Gorrespondence of the U. S. Government, 
and from newspaper articles, especially from those in the New York 
Evening Post, extending through a series of years. It has been 
approved by his relatives in this country, who also kindly furnished 
useful memoranda. That of Middleton, condensed from his reply 
to the circular, has been revised and approved by his father. 

It will be observed that several names are given in the biog- 
raphies in a form difi'erent from that which they have in the 



VI PREFACE 

College catalogues and in the Triennial. The change, in every 
Case, has been made at the request of the parties concerned, or in 
conformity with their own usage, and is in most instances men- 
tioned, and the reasons for it stated in the text. The names thus 
changed are those of Blair, Chauncey, Greeley, Hartwell, Johnson, 
and Fayette Smith. 

At the end of the lives some statistics of the Class are given, 
followed by an account of the Class Fund and the Class Album, 
and by a list of the Class as it is printed in the Triennial Catalogue 
for the present year. The volume closes with some Memorials of 
College Life, which it was thought would prove acceptable. 

In presenting to the Class this record of the lives of its mem- 
bers, the Secretary trusts that its perusal will afford them as much 
pleasure as he has himself found in its compilation ; and that as his 
endeavor to perform the task assigned him has had the effect of 
enlarging his sympathies for all his classmates, so its result may 
serve to renew their acquaintance with each other, and to keep alive 
the old Class spirit of their college days. 

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, 

Class Secretary, 



CLASS OFFICKRS IN ISCi) 



Committee on Class Meetings. 

GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, 
BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, 
AARON CHARLES BALDWIN. 

Trustees of the Ceass Fund. 

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, 
ROBERT CODMAN. 

Class Secretary. 
EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT. 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON BAKER. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON BAKER was born October 
10, 1822, in Salisbury Township. Lancaster County, 
Pennsylvania. His father, an honest and independent 
farmer, was of German origin ; his mother was of Scotch 
descent. At the age of twelve he was sent to a boarding- 
school at Litiz, in his native county, where he remained 
two years, after which, being destined for the mercantile 
profession, he was placed in a wholesale and retail store 
about thirty miles from home. He remained there only a 
week ; when, disgusted with the employment, he ran away. 
From this time until he had reached the age of seventeen 
he remained on his father's farm, with the exception of six 
months passed at a school in West Chester. 

Having now decided to make the law his profession, he 
set about preparing for college, and accordingly again en- 
tered an academy, where his severe application, to make 
up for lost time, brought on an attack of illness. Recov- 
ering from this at the end of nine months he entered 
Newark College, in partial connection with the Sophomore 
class, but at the end of one term was admitted to full 
standing. Having been again attacked by illness, how- 
ever, he obtained an honorable dismissal, and returned to 
his father's farm to regain his health. This being in part 
accomplished, and thinking the climate of New England 
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10 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

might be more favorable to liim, he, in September, 1842, 
entered Harvard College as an University student, attached 
to the Class of 1845. His health improving, he was able, 
the next year, by some hard study, to join the Class of 
1844, in the second term of the Junior year, and remained 
with them till they graduated. 

The above is condensed from his autobiography in the 
Class-Book, dated April 27, 1844. He has not been 
heard from directly since graduating, but is reported to 
be married and to be practising law in San Francisco, 
California. 

May, 1869. 



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AAEON CHARLES BALDWIN. 

AARON CHARLES BALDWIN, son of Aaron and 
Elizabeth Esther (Marett) Baldwin, was born in 
Boston, Massachusetts, June 7, 1824. 

He was educated at Chauncey Hall School, and entered 
Harvard College with the Class as a Freshman, without 
conditions. At the end of the Sophomore year he was 
obliged to leave college on account of weakness of his 
eyes. 

The next year, although still unable to study, he attended 
the lectures of the Dane Law School. 

He entered a counting-house in 1845, and was engaged 
in mercantile pursuits until 1860, at which time he retired 
from active business. 

In 1853, on petition of the Class, he received the degree 
of A. B., and had the great satisfaction of being enrolled 
in the catalogue with the Class of 1844. 

April 29, 1869. 



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^FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 

FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER, son of Samuel 
and Mary (Montgomery) BatcheMer, was born in 
that part of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, which is now 
within the limits of the city of Lowell, April 2, 1825. 

His father's family is believed to have originated in Dor- 
setshire, England, whence John Batchelder, yeoman, emi- 
grated to this country about the year 1640, and settled in 
Salem. On his maternal side he was of Scotch extraction, 
— his mother's grandfather, John Montgomery, leaving 
Glasgow for Philadelphia at the age of twenty, at the in- 
stance of a brother who was prosperously established in the 
latter city. It was, perhaps, from this ancestor, or from 
his mother's father, who bore the same name, and who was 
in command of the forces at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
during the War of 1812, that he derived his strong and very 
early developed taste for music, especially for the violin, 
upon which instrument he became quite a proficient, as 
his grandfather and great-grandfather had been before 
him. 

A few weeks before his sixth birthday his parents re- 
moved with their seven children, six sons and one daughter, 
to Saco, Maine, where his father assumed direction of the 
affairs of the York Manufacturing Company, established 
there a few years before, rescuing them from a state of 
feebleness and depression, and conducting them to the state 
of high prosperity which they still enjoy. Here he received 
such manner of schooling and preparation for college as 
was obtainable at the " Thornton Academy," an institution 



FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 13 

of some pretensions at that place and time, — now, however, 
extinct, — enterino; college from this seminary, as a Fresh- 
man, in 1840. By the removal of his father's family from 
Saco to Cambridge he found himself at home before the 
close of the first term of his Junior year, and pleasantly 
established there, — his father having purchased the house 
on Brattle street (then called Mount Auburn Road), 
known as the Yassall house, from having been owned and 
occupied by Colonel Henry Yassall of ante-revolutionary 
memory. 

Upon graduating in 1844, at the early age of nineteen, 
he gave a full year to general studies, the belles-lettres, mod- 
ern languages, and, above all, to music, to which he could 
now devote himself more assiduously than ever. He de- 
lighted friends and acquaintances with the versatility of his 
acquirements, — singing with great sweetness and feeling, 
playing the organ, the piano-forte, and the violin with taste 
and scientific accuracy, — producing several musical com- 
positions of merit, familiarizing himself with German and 
Italian, studying some practical aspects of horticulture 
and architecture, and acquiring a fair degree of skill at 
the easel. 

But the time had now arrived when the cares and re- 
sponsibilities of manhood were in great measure to sup- 
plant these recreations and amenities of youth, although 
the taste for these pursuits and the influence exerted by 
them on his character were never lost. In the year 1845 he 
commenced the study of law in the office of Edward Blake, 
Esq., and in 1848 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
at the Dane Law School. He immediately entered upon the 
practice of his profession, opening an office in what was 
known as Minot's Building, directly opposite the Court 
House, his premises communicating with those of his pre- 
ceptor, Mr. Blake. After the usual round of miscellaneous 
practice, his attention became by degrees concentrated upon 



14 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

the business of conveyancing and the management of trusts, 
to which he finally gave himself almost exclusively. But, 
though actively engaged in professional duties, he never- 
theless found time for the indulgence of his artistic tastes, 
and for taking a prominent and very useful part in the 
affairs of the parish of Christ Church, Cambridge, of which 
he was for several years treasurer, and in the municipal 
concerns of the then but newly organized city of Cambridge, 
serving in the Common Council and upon various important 
committees. 

He married, December 2, 1851, Susan Cabot Foster, 
youngest child of Charles C. Foster, of Cambridge, and at 
once began housekeeping in a house planned mainly 
by himself, and built under his personal supervision, on 
Phillips Place, Cambridge. Here, in 1852, a daughter, 
Amy, and, in 1856, a son, Charles Foster, were born to him. 
His health, which had never been robust, began to fail soon 
after his marriage, and the insidious advances of consump- 
tion became gradually more and more apparent. Various 
courses of remedial treatment having been pursued without 
success, and scA^eral shorter tours, sojournings at the sea- 
side, &c., essayed with only moderate and temporary bene- 
fit, he undertook, in the spring of 1857, a journey to Florida, 
accompanied by his wife and infant son. Returning in a 
few months in what seemed like improved health, he re- 
newed the experiment the succeeding November, only to 
add another to the long list of consumptives who have left 
the pleasures, the certain comforts, and the manifold as- 
sured advantages of home in the profitless search after an 
illusory phantom of health in distant regions. He died 
very peacefully at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Florida, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1858*! 

Nearly a year subsequent to his death, at the annual 
meeting of the Harvard Musical Association, resolutions 
were adopted and remarks made which are introduced here 



FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 15 

as a fitting close to this imperfect sketch, especially as they 
dwell upon certain points which the writer has left untouched, 
relative to Mr. Batchelder's connection with tliis society 
and with the Boston Music Hall Association. The resolu- 
tions were as follows : — 

" Whereas, Since the last meeting of the Harvard Musical Asso- 
ciation, the hand of Death has taken from us one who had been 
closely identified with its interests and pleasures : 

" jResolred, That we hold very dear to our hearts the memory 
of Francis Lowell Batchelder ; that we recall with pleas- 
ure the recollection of his singularly pure and lovely Christian 
life and conversation ; that we esteem it a privilege to have 
known and loved one who was in every way so worthy of affec- 
tion and esteem, and that here especially, and, on this anniversary 
which brings to mind the pleasant recollections of college days 
and college friends, we shall long recall to memory the face, 
the presence, and the conversation of him who has gone from 
among us. 

" Resolved, That we tender to his family our sincere sympathy for 
the irreparable loss that they have sustained, and rejoice with them 
in the painless recollections of his blameless life and character, and 
that these resolves be transmitted to them and entered upon the 
records of the Association." 

Before the resolutions were passed Dr. J. B. Upham 
spoke as follows : — 

" It is with much hesitation, Mr. President, after the beautiful 
and touching tribute just rendered to the memory of our departed 
brother, that I rise and attempt to add a single word. But the re- 
lations sustained between Batchelder and myself were such and so 
intimate, while he was living, that I cannot refrain from giving 
some expression to my sorrow at his early death. 

" As is known to most present, he was for many years a mem- 
ber of this Association ; and, whether in the capacity of private fel- 
lowship, or as one of its most faithful and efficient officers, he had 
always its best interests at heart. It was here and in this connec- 
tion, as likewise in his capacity as clerk of the Boston Music Hall 



16 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Association, where he performed his duty most faithfully and as- 
siduously, that my acquaintance with him began, — an acquaintance 
always coupled with esteem and respect, which soon ripened into 
friendship and ultimately into intimacy and the strongest attach- 
ment. More particularly, during the last two years of his life, were 
we drawn together by the bond of sympathy in a common object 
and topic of interest, having relation, I mean, to that noble struc- 
ture, — the embodiment both of science and of art, — the Organ, 
which was his favorite instrument. 

" I have now in my possession a ruler made from one of the 
keys of the old organ in Christ Church, in Cambridge, where our 
friend was accustomed to worship, and where he often officiated as 
organist in the three or four years preceding his death. This relic 
he gave me on the morning of my departure for Europe, a couple 
of years ago. The instrument from which it was taken was, in it- 
self, a curiosity, and in its day a valuable work, — some of the 
incidents of whose history are most interesting and remarkable ; it 
having been built so early as about the year 1760, by the famous 
John Snetzler of London, robbed, in the Revolutionary War, by the 
besieging army under Washington, of its six leaden stops (which 
were then put to a more practical use), and taken down and ex- 
changed for the present instrument some dozen or fifteen years 
since, — an event (this last) over which Batchelder, in his gentle 
and refined taste, never ceased to mourn. I mention this anecdote, 
Mr. President, otherwise irrelevant, perhaps, at the present time, 
as indicating, in some sort, the appreciative and artistic tone which 
pervaded our friend's nature. And this it was, I can add my testi- 
mony, which characterized his whole life, — a spirit of gentleness 
and refinement and kindness, and goodness of heart ; a love for the 
picturesque and beautiful in Nature, and for Art in all its forms, — 
for music especially. Add to this a cultivated mind, a well-stored 
intellect, urbanity and affability of* manner and of conversation, and 
do we wonder it has been said of him, he never had an enemy, he 
never lost a friend 2 

" Mr. Batchelder was by no means demonstrative of his talents 
or his acquirements. His voice was rarely heard in our meetings, 
though no one was more constant and punctual in his attendance. 
So it was elsewhere, whether in the business, the duties, the 



FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 17 

rational enjoyments of life. He did much, — he said little. But 
by a certain something, more easily felt than described, one could 
not be with him much without acknowledging his excellence and 
his moral worth. And if we could see, as some believe it will be 
in our power one day to see, the shadows imprinted on the sur- 
rounding objects with which we come into proximity in our daily 
life — both publicly and in retirement — daguerreotyped, photo- 
graphed, as it were, we should read all around, I am sure, in his 
case, the record of a beautiful and blameless life. 

" The last time I saw our lamented brother in health was on the 
occasion to wdiich I have alluded. On my return home, a few 
months afterwards, he had gone South to escape the severities of 
our New England spring. After a few months' sojourn he came 
back, and I visited him (in company with my friend. Dr. Derby) at 
his quiet home in Cambridge. AVe found him cheerful and hap- 
py, and full of hopes of recovery ; for his disease, as you all 
know, was that rhysterious and insidious one which so simulates 
health, and steals onward so gradually in its fatal march, and is 
so almost invariably accompanied by courage and fortitude, and 
the persistent hoping against hope, that wdien its end comes, 
which is death, it appears sudden and surprising. Thus, on the 
occasion of this visit with our friend and brother, he was him- 
self, as I have said, buoyant and hopeful ; to us, however, his 
doom, even then, was plainly written in the lineaments of his 
face. We bade him farewell with well-assumed cheerfulness, 
but with sorrowing hearts, feeling, knowing, it to be for the last 
time. 

" He went a second time to Florida, — like the Ponce de Leon, 
and innumerable multitudes since, in vain search after the fountain 
of life, — where, in a couple of months, he died, in such manner 
and with such surroundings as, it seems to me, most fitting he 
should die, and as he himself, I believe, could most have desired, — 
in the genial air of Florida, near the coast, not without the presence 
of relatives and sympathizing friends, — the winds blowing on him 
incense from the breathing pines inland, and the voice of the sea 
which he so much loved speaking to him from the shore, — and, 
floating all around him, the melody with which that delicious cli- 
mate seems laden, in all seasons, summer and winter, in the day 



18 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

and in the night, throughout animal and vegetable life, — where, 
as some poet has beautifully expressed it, even 

' The mute, still air, 
Is Music slumbering on her instrument.' 

" Thus he died, — died as he had lived, patient and uncomplaining 
to the last, calm and happy and peaceful and resigned, still trust- 
ing in God, in the exercise of a Christian faith, and in full hopes of 
a glorious immortality." 



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THOMAS BLAIR. 

THOMAS BLAIR was born in Western Pennsylvania 
November 20, 1825. At the age of twelve he was sent 
to a boarding-school in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he 
remained four years. He then entered the Western Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, situated in Pittsburg, wliere he gradu- 
ated in 1843. In August of the same year he applied for 
admission to Harvard College, and joined the Class of 1844 
in the beginning of the Senior year. 

The above is condensed from his autobiography in tlie 
Class-Book, dated May 1, 1844. He has there entered his 
name as it is printed above ; but in the Catalogue of Un- 
dergraduates for 1843-44, the only year in which he was 
connected with the College, as well as in the Triennial, it is 
printed Thomas S. Blair. 

After graduating with the Class he returned to Pennsyl- 
vania, where he is now reported to be engaged in business 
at Pittsburg. He has not been heard from directly since 
graduating. 

May, 1869. 



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RICHAED MAGEUDER BEADFOED. 

RICHARD MAGRUDER BRADFORD was born in 
Baltimore, Maryland, on the 2d day of November, 
1825. 

His father was John Bradford, a merchant of Baltimore, 
son of AVilliam Bradford, farmer, of Abingdon, Hartford 
County, Maryland, a major during the War of Independ- 
ence, and a descendant of Gamaliel Bradford, of Massa- 
chusetts. 

His mother, Anna Strieker, was daughter of General 
John Strieker of Baltimore, who was well known in the 
annals of Maryland for the active part he took in the 
defence of Baltimore during the last war with Great 
Britain. He was captain in the Maryland Line during 
the Revolutionary War, a member of the Society of the 
Cincinnati, and son of Colonel George Strieker, whose 
father emigrated to this country from Switzerland. 

Richard M. Bradford was educated and prepared for col- 
lege by M. R. McXally, Esq., of Baltimore, in company with 
his classmate Robert Lemmon, and entered college, in the 
second term of the Sophomore year, in 1842. During their 
college life he and Lemmon were intimate companions and 
room-mates. 

After leaving college he studied law in the office of James 
Mason Campbell, Esq., of Baltimore, for eighteen months, 
and in the office of the Hon. Hugh Davy Evans, of Balti- 
more, for nearly a year, and was admitted to the bar in the 
spring of 1847. About this time he was seized by the 
military furor which then pervaded the minds of most 



KICHAED MAGRUDER BRADFORD. 21 

young men in Maryland, and accompanied Captain S. 
H. Walker, of Texan Ranger notoriety, to Mexico, where 
he participated in many of the battles and hardships of 
the Mexican War. On his return he entered upon the 
practice of law with Robert Lemmon ; but after a few 
months abandoned it for mercantile life, in which he has 
since remained. Business calling him to California in 
1849, he made the journey thither across the Plains, which 
was, with the exception of the sea voyage around Cape 
Horn, the only regular route known at that early day. 
After leaving California he spent some fifteen months in 
Peru, and returned, by way of Cape Horn, to Baltimore. 
He went again to South America, and passed several 
years on the Spanish Main, in Brazil, the West Indies, 
<fcc. He has since resided principally in New York and 
Rhode Island. 

He has never been married. 

May 28, 1868. 



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GEOEGE MERRICK BROOKS. 

GEORGE MERRICK BROOKS was born in Concord, 
Massachusetts, July 26, 1824, and was the son of 
Nathan (H, C. 1809) and Mary (Merrick) Brooks. 

At an early age he was sent to an academy in his native 
town, where he remained until twelve years of age, when he 
went to reside for a year with an uncle in Pomfret, Con- 
necticut. He was fitted for college at a boarding-school in 
Waltham, Massachusetts. (Class-Book, abridged.) 

After his graduation he spent one year in his father's 
office in Concord, then studied in the Law School for eigh- 
teen months, and completed his studies with Messrs. Hop- 
kins and Ames at Lowell. He established himself in the 
practice of law at Concord, where he has remained ever 
since. He has had a fair country practice, but as Concord 
and the vicinity is almost exclusively an agricultural region, 
his business has not been a very lucrative one. 

In the year 1858 he represented the district, comprising 
the towns of Concord, Lincoln, and Weston, in the State 
Legislature ; the next year he was Senator from the Fourth 
Middlesex Senatorial District, and was also chosen one of 
the committee to revise the Statutes of Massachusetts. 
During the extra session of the Legislature of 1859 he was 
taken suddenly and seriously ill, and it being deemed ad- 
visable for him to travel, in order to fully recuperate, he went 
to Europe in the spring of 1860 in company with George 
F. Hoar, of Worcester, now a member of Congress from 
the Worcester District. He was fully restored to health by his 
journey, but has never since held any political office, except 
as a member of Town, County, and District Committees. 



GEORGE MERRICK BROOKS. 23 

He has been on the board of Selectmen of Concord for 
five years, and for four years has acted as Chairman of the 
board. He has held no other Town offices of any moment. 
He is now President of the Middlesex Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Company, and of the Middlesex Institution for Sav- 
ings, — both institutions located in Concord. 

He was married, April 4, 1850, to Abba M. W. Prescott, 
of Concord, daughter of Timothy and Maria K. Prescott ; 
she died June 10, 1851. 

He was married, Xovember 29, 1865, to Mary A. Dilling- 
ham, of Lowell, daughter of Artemas and Mary J. Dil- 
lingham. 

March 29, 1869. 



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CHARLES JAMES CAPEN. 

CHARLES JAMES CAPEN was born in South Boston, 
Massachusetts, April 5, 1823. 

His father was Lemuel Capen, born in Dorchester, Mas- 
sachusetts, November 25, 1789, graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege in 1810, minister in Sterling, Massachusetts, and after- 
ward in South Boston ; died August 28, 1858. 

His mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Hunting. She 
is still living. 

He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and 
entered Harvard with tlie Class as a Freshman. He re- 
mained through the whole college course, and graduated 
with the Class at Commencement, receiving his degree the 
following year. 

Immediately after graduating he commenced teaching in 
Dedham, Massachusetts, where he still resides. September 
6, 1852, he was appointed Usher in the Boston Latin School, 
where he is now Sub-Master. 

He was married, April 26, 1848, to Lucy Richmond 
Seaver, of Dedham, and has two sons, Charles Lemuel, 
born February 9, 1850, and Edward, born July 13, 1854. 

May 13, 1869. 



25 



*GEOEGE BLANKERN GARY. 

/^ EORGE BLAXKERX GARY was born in Boston, 
V_T Massachusetts, December 2, 1824, and was the eldest 
child of George Blankern and Helen (Paine) Gary. His 
mother was the daughter of Gharles Paine, Esq. (H. G. 
1793) and granddaughter of Robert Treat Paine (H. G. 
1749), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence. 

He was successively a pupil of Mr. A. Bronson Alcott, 
of Mr. Tilly B. Hayward, and of Mr. Gharles K. Dillaway ; 
and he finally entered college from the Boston Latin 
School. While at the Latin School he received a Franklin 
Medal. 

As a boy, he was remarkable for a grave and serious 
demeanor, which made him appear much older than he was. 
Neat and precise in his dress, he had not a particle of the 
gayety of boyhood about him, and no relish for a boy's 
ordinary amusements ; his tastes and his recreations were 
already those of a man. He early showed a fondness for 
Natural History, and the gift of a set of Guvier's works, 
when he was about thirteen years old, inspired him with 
the idea of establishing a Boy's Natural History Society, to 
which he gave the name of the Guvierian, and of which he 
was the first and only President. Notwithstanding his gravity 
and reserve, he was by no means unpopular among his fel- 
lows, though, as it happened, his chief associates were gener- 
ally a few years older than himself. He formed at this time, as 
well as later, many warm and lasting friendships ; and those 
who were admitted to his confidence were not long in dis- 



26 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

covering beneatli his grave exterior a warm heart, a genial 
temper, and a strong appreciation of friendly feeling in 
others. 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, and at 
once took the honorable position to which his natural powers, 
no less than his excellent training, entitled him. He never 
seemed, however, ambitious of high rank, and never pre- 
tended to conceal his preference for some of the branches 
taught in college and his distaste for others. The facility 
he had already acquired in the art of composition gave him, 
from the outset, an easy superiority over most of the Class, 
in the English Department, and this superiority he main- 
tained without effort to the end. No one ever thought of 
disputing his title to be considered one of the very best 
writers in the Class. In the classics, too, he was an excel- 
lent scholar ; he delighted in philosophical studies, and easily 
acquired several of the modern languages. But he was 
far from being what in college is called a " c?2^." There 
was a desultoriness in his composition, partly natural and 
partly imitated, perhaps, from his favorite Lamb, which 
prevented his attaining the high rank which his natural 
abilities would otherwise have commanded. 

In his Freshman year he lived a somewhat secluded life, 
and was known to but few of his classmates. He always 
walked straight to his room after recitations, with a bundle 
of books under his arm. Gradually, however, a few friends, 
with tastes similar to his own, fell into the habit of meeting 
in the evening at his room, which was at Mrs. Gurney's in 
the Appian Way. The conversation on these occasions often 
took a literary turn ; for Cary was at this time steeped to 
the lips in Charles Lamb, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 
and a few other favorite works. The Bible, too, usually lay 
upon his table, for his mind was naturally religious, though 
at this time he never alluded to sacred subjects in conver- 
sation. 



GEORGE BLANKERN GARY. 27 

In the Sophomore year these meetings gave place to 
others of a somewhat different character. A sort of society 
Avas formed, entitled by its members the CO., but popu- 
larly though most unjustly known in the Class as the 
Lemonade Club. It was not strictly a club, however, as it 
liad no laws, no organization, and no stated times of meet- 
ing. The members were Cary, Clarke, Hale, F. Parkman, 
Peabody, Perry, Snow, Tread well, and afterward D wight. 
Tlie meetings usually took place once a fortnight, when the 
members read such compositions of their own as they had 
felt the inclination to prepare, and the evening's entertain- 
ment concluded with a supper, whicli was at first anything 
but sumptuous, though in this respect a considerable change 
afterward took place. From the beginning Cary was the 
animating spirit of the society. He never failed to be 
present at the meetings, and was always the first upon the 
spot, while by common consent the best chair in the room 
was placed by the side of the fire for his accommodation^ 
His contribution to the literary part of the entertainment 
rarely failed, and his papers w^ere marked by an ease and 
elegance which placed them far above the performances 
of the other members. They were sometimes witty and 
humorous, with a dash of quaintness caught from his 
favorite old autliors, but at other times of a quiet and 
meditative character. He was fond of expressing his dis- 
like of bustle and activity, and his preference for a student's 
quiet life. 

Pre-eminent as was the share he took in the literary exer- 
cises of the society, his supremacy was no less marked 
when the convivial part of the evening arrived. He now, 
indeed, began to exhibit himself in a character so new that 
even those who knew him best were taken completely by 
surprise. He who had been thought the gravest of the 
grave suddenly revealed himself as the wit and the gay 
companion. His sparkling conversation, his sallies of wit 



28 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

and humor, winch, even in his gayest moods, never offended 
against good taste, his genial and convivial temperament 
increasing with every meeting, and the readiness with which 
lie conld sympathize with the tastes and predilections of 
others, however dissimilar to his own, made hun more than 
ever the leading spirit of the club, where he was henceforth 
known by the cognomen of '' Mr. Pickwick." He was proud 
of the title, and of the position it indicated. How truly he 
was the life and soul of the society was made apparent when 
he was obliged, during the Senior year, to leave Cambridge 
for a time. The club was completely broken up ; not a 
single meeting was ever held again. 

The cause of his temporary absence was the injury done 
to his eyes by his close application in writing the disserta- 
tion which obtained the Junior Bowdoin Prize for the year 
1841-42. He went to New York to put himself under 
the care of Dr. Elliot, the oculist, and remained there 
three months, including the winter vacation and part of the 
second term of the Senior year. The condition of his eyes, 
which soon began to improve, did not prevent his reading a 
little, though at first only for a few moments at a time, and 
he passed the period of his stay pleasantly, on the whole, look- 
ing at his books when he could not read them, and using his 
eyes in other ways, " seeing all there was to be seen, and 
laughing at almost all he saw." Toward the end of his visit 
he began to go into society more than he had been accus- 
tomed to do at home. He was delighted with the New 
York ladies, their taste in dress, their skill in conversation, 
their knowledge of " all the exquisite refinements of the 
social art." Of that art he professed himself an ardent 
admirer, and confessed that the ladies are its only teachers. 
He certainly profited by the lessons they taught him in New 
York, for from this time he threw off, in a great measure, 
his habitvial shyness, and began to mingle more freely with 
his fellows. On his return to Cambridge he enlarged the 



GEORGE BLANKERN GARY. 29 

circle of his acquaintance, liis reserve melted away, and lie 
no longer restrained his natural cheerfulness when in the 
presence of his classmates at large. At the Class Supper 
at the end of the Senior year, no one did more than he to 
enliven the company. 

He was now, indeed, very popular with the Class. His 
talents as a writer had become known, both from the 
high marks lie was reported to receive for his themes and 
from the '^ parts " he had " spoken " at the college exhibi- 
tions, while his reputation for wit and genial humor had 
penetrated beyond the limits of the C. C. Neither his social 
nor his literary qualities ever excited the slightest envy or 
dislike. There was something in his character which re- 
pelled feelings of this kind. In his friendships he showed 
himself capable of strong attachment, and in this, indeed, he 
was quite as remarkable as he was for his gayety and wit. 
His cognomen of Mr. Pickwick had become as familiar to the 
Class as to the club where it originated, and all regarded 
him with more or less of that mingled affection and respect 
with which he had from the first inspired his more intimate 
associates. In short, the Class of 184^1 was very proud of 
him. 

He had already been chosen one of the Tice-Presidents 
at the Sophomore Supper, had been President and Orator 
of the Hasty Pudding Club, and he was finally selected as 
the Orator for Class Day. 

The oration which he delivered on this occasion is still 
remembered by many of the Class as a production of no 
common merit ; but he himself was dissatisfied with it, 
and, after reading some rather harsh newspaper criticisms 
upon it, he one day, shortly after its delivery, threw it into 
the fire. 

During the vacation, which in those days intervened 
between the end of the term and Commencement, he made 
a journey of a few weeks, visiting Niagara and Quebec^ 



30 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

which he thought he ought to see before going to Europe, 
as he proposed to do after graduating. The pleasures of 
travelling were new to him, and he gave himself up to them 
with a keenness and relish which surprised even himself. 
" Did I ever profess a love of home and a stationary life ? " 
he writes from Niagara to a classmate ; " I have the full spirit 
of travelling on me now ; I would not give up my cosmo- 
politan freedom for all the domestic arm-chairs in the world. 
I sliould like to rove forever, and, like a true kinsman of 
Mother Gary, am content to sleep upon the wave." 

He returned from this journey in time for Commence- 
ment, which occurred on tlie 28th of August. The part 
assigned him on this occasion, " A Disquisition, Yathek 
and its Author," indicated an honorable though not the 
highest rank ; and the word Rhetoric in italics, printed 
against his name in the Order of Exercises, shows that he 
was chiefly indebted for it to the ^' high distinction " he had 
attained in his favorite department. 

In September, 1844, he sailed for Europe in the ship 
Ashburton from New York, and arrived at Liverpool about 
the first of October. From Liverpool, after passing four 
days at Dublin, he went to Glasgow, and gave tlu^ee weeks 
to travelling in Scotland and the English lake country. 
Then, after spending nearly a month in London, and " roving 
about in all directions " between that city and Liverpool, he 
crossed over to France in December. In the spring of 
1845 lie went to Italy, and, returning by way of Yenice, 
]\lilan, and the Italian lakes, crossed the Alps by the Sim- 
plon road, reached Geneva in August, and finally descending 
the Rhine to the sea, returned home after a year's absence. 

Immediately upon his return, in the autumn of 1845, he 
entered his name as a student at the Dane Law School, 
where he continued till his death, residing with his parents 
in Boston and going daily to Gambridge, usually on foot, to 
attend the recitations. 



GEORGE BLANKERN GARY. 31 

On the evening of December 22, 1846, he attended a ball 
at the house of a neighbor, where he seemed in his usual 
health and spirits, and whence he returned home at a late 
hour, in company with a friend, who left him at his door. 
The next morning he was found dead in his room. The 
cause of his death was ascertained to be congestion of the 
lungs, occasioned, perhaps, by the sudden transition from 
a heated ball-room to the chilling temperature of an unusu- 
ally cold winter's night. 

Thus, in the first death which occurred among them after 
graduating, the Class of 1844 lost one of its most cherished 
members and one of its brightest ornaments, at the early age 
of twenty-two. It may be doubted whether Gary would 
have become greatly distinguished in the profession for 
w^hich he was preparing himself, or whether, indeed, he 
would ever have entered upon its active duties ; but had 
his life been spared, there is every reason to believe that in 
the more quiet and congenial ])ursuits of literature he 
would have achieved an honorable, if not a brilliant, repu- 
tation. His mental and social qualities have been already 
sufficiently dwelt upon. It should be added that he was a 
good son, and that his moral character was above reproach. 

A meeting of the Class was held on the 26th of Decem- 
ber, 1846, at the house of G. F. Parkman, when resolutions 
were adopted expressive of grief at his loss. A number 
of his classmates were present at his funeral, which took 
place on that day. 

The members of the Dane Law School, at a meeting held 
at Cambridge, December 24, 1846, also passed appropriate 
resolutions on the occasion of Cary's death, and voted to 
wear black crape on the left arm for thirty days, as a .badge 
of mourning. 

April, 18G9. 



32 



HENRY CHAUNCEY. 

HENRY CHAUNCEY, son of Henry and Lucy Wright 
(Alsop) Cliauncey, was born in Middletown, Con- 
necticut, February 9, 1825. 

Until he was six years old he lived with his parents in 
Middletown, and then accompanied them to South America, 
where his father, a partner in the house of Alsop and Com- 
pany, afterward Alsop and Chauncey, was engaged in 
business. After remaining fifteen months in Lima, Peru, 
and nearly two years in Valparaiso, Chili, he was sent home 
to complete his education, there being no proper schools in 
those places. He returned to Middletown, and was there 
fitted for college. 

He joined the Class at the beginning of the Junior year, 
finished the course with them, and graduated at Commence- 
ment. 

After graduating he removed to New York City, where 
he went into business as a merchant, but was soon obliged 
to relinquish it on account of ill-health. Several years 
spent in foreign travel restored his health and strength, 
but he has not again engaged in any active business. He 
has recently returned from Europe, after an absence of 
nearly four years. 

He was married, in 1853, to Emily A., third daughter of 
the late Samuel S. Howland, of New York. They have 
two children, — Harry, aged twelve, and Lucy, aged nine 
years. 

May 24, 1869. 



33. 



JAMES GORDON CLAEKE. 

JAMES GORDON CLARKE, son of Peter and Jane 
(Aiken) Clarke, was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, 
December 28, 1822. 

He w^as fitted for college at Andover, Massachusetts, 
under the instruction of the Rev. Samuel Taylor. He first 
entered Harvard College in 1839, with the Class of 1843, 
but remained only during the Freshman year. In 1840 he 
went to Europe ; and on his return, after a year's absence, 
joined the Class of 1844, at the beginning of the first Soph- 
omore term. 

Immediately after graduating he entered the Dane Law 
School, and in 1846 received the degree of LL. B. In 
October of the same year he again went to Europe, where 
he has since chiefly resided, making a visit to America of a 
few months in 1853-54, and again in 1858. In the win- 
ter of 1862 he came again to the United States and made a 
longer stay, remaining until April 11, 1866, when he sailed 
once more for Europe, where he now is. 

From June, 1857, to September, 1858, he was Acting 
Charge d' Affaires at Brussels, and in 1860 and the early 
part of 1861 was Assistant Secretary of Legation at Paris. 

During his last visit to America (1862 to 1866) he ac- 
companied the army of the Potomac in several of its cam- 
paigns, acting occasionally as a volunteer assistant to the 
Sanitary Commission. 

He is not married. 

May, 1869. 



34 



EGBERT CODMAN. 

ROBERT CODMAN was born in Dorchester, Massacliu 
setts, March 8, 1823. His parents were the Rev. 
John Codman, D.D. (H. C. 1802) and Mary Wheelwright. 
He was prepared for college at Dummer Academy, By- 
field, Massachusetts ; and, after graduation, studied law in 
the Dane Law School. 

He was married in University Place Church, New York, 
November 16, 1854, to Catherine C. Hurd, daughter of 
John R. Hurd and Catherine M. Codman. 

Counsellor at law. Practises his profession, and resides 
in Boston. 

Was an alderman of the city of Boston in 1856. 

April, 1869. 



35 



^JUDAH CROWELL. 

JUDAH CROWELL, tlie son of Judali Crowell, of Den- 
nis, and Dorcas Baker, of Yarmouth, was born in Yar- 
mouth, Massachusetts, January 31, 1820. He was de- 
scended, in the seventh generation, from John Crowell 
(Crow), one of the three original proprietors of the town- 
ship of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. 

His father, who died at the age of about thirty-three or 
thirty-four years, during the childhood of the son, was en- 
gaged m farming and in the manufacture of salt, and, like 
the son, was remarkable for sterling honesty. 

After studying in the academies of Yarmouth and East 
Dennis, and in the English Seminary of Andover, he en- 
tered Phillips Academy, at Andover, in April, 1837, and 
continued there nntil fitted for college in July, 1840. 

After graduating, he immediately commenced the study 
of medicine, to which his original tastes strongly inclined 
him, in the Medical Department of Harvard College 
and in the Tremont Medical School, Boston. He had 
completed two years and a half of his professional course, 
when tlie disease (of the lungs) which proved fatal, and of 
which he had had some premonitions while a student in 
Phillips Academy, developed itself. He died, unmarried, 
in South Yarmouth, February 11, 1847. He exhibited 
great patience, fortitude, and resignation during a painful 
sickness, and, besides other superior qualities of mind 
and heart, was particularly remarkable for sound practical 
judgment and good sense, and for a Roman-like integrity, 
fidelity, constancy, and firmness. 



36 



CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY. 

/^HARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, son of Charles Wil- 
V_y liam and Frances Alsop (Pomeroy) Dabney, was born 
in Horta, Fayal, August 10, 1823. 

He was prepared for college at Fayal and in Paris, under 
E. S. Brooks, tutor, and joined the Class in the Sophomore 
year. Since graduating he has been engaged in business 
in Boston as a merchant. 

He was married, July 18, 1849, to Susan H. Oliver. 

On the 25th of August, 1862, he was commissioned as 
Major in the Forty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
teers ; he served in that capacity during the campaign in 
North Carolina, and was mustered out with tlie regiment, 
June 18, 1863. 

He is at present absent with his wife and family on a 
visit to Europe. 

May, 1869. 



37 



JOHN CALL DALTON. 

JOHX CALL DALTON was born in Chelmsford, Massa- 
chusetts, February 2, 1825. 

His father was John Call Dalton (H. C. 1814), M. D., 
grandson of Captain James Dalton, of Boston, 1736. 

His mother's maiden name was Julia Ann Spalding. 
She was tlie daughter of Deacon Noah and Anne (Parker) 
Spalding, of Chelmsford, and a descendant of Edward 
Spalding, one of the first settlers of Chelmsford, 1654. 

He lived in Chelmsford until 1831, then in Lowell, Massa- 
chusetts ; studied in various private schools and in tlje 
public High School in Lowell till 1839, and was fitted for 
college, in the year 1839-40, in the school of Eev. Samuel 
Eipley, at Waltham, Massachusetts. 

He entered college as a Freshman, was suspended for 
irregularities during the latter half of the Junior year, 
studying during this time with Eev. Henry B. Smith, at 
West Amesbury, Massachusetts. 

His occupation, since graduating, has been the profession 
of Medichie. He resided in Boston from 1849 to 1851 ; 
in Buffalo, New York, from 1851 to 1853 ; since then in 
the city of New York. 

He began the study of medicine in 1844, under the direc- 
tion of Dr. John C. Dalton, Senior; attended medical lec- 
tures in the Massachusetts Medical College, Boston, in the 
winters of 1844 -45, and 1845-46, and graduated in medi- 
cine at the same institution in 1847. He served as House 
Apothecary in the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 - 
47, and as House Surgeon in 1847 -48. 



38 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

He was appointed Professor of Physiology and Morbid 
Anatomy in the Medical Department of the University 
of Buffalo in 1851 ; resigned in 1854, and became Professor 
of Pliysiology and Microscopic Anatomy in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1855. He is a 
member of the New York Academy of Medicine ; of the 
New York Pathological Society ; of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts; of the 
Biological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia ; and of the National Academy of Sciences 
of the United States of America. 

He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, Seventh Regiment, 
New York State Militia, April 18, 1861 ; served in the 
Washington campaign of that regiment, and resigned 
after its return to New York, in June of the same year. 
He was commissioned as Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers 
in the Army of the United States, August 8, 1861, and 
accompanied the expedition to Port Royal, South Carolina, 
as Surgeon of the First Brigade, in November, 1861. He 
was afterward, June 26, 1862, appointed Medical Inspector 
of the Department of the South. He was present at the 
naval action of Port Royal Harbor, November 7, 1861, at 
the siege and reduction of Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, 
April 11, 1862, and at the battle of James Island, June 16, 

1862. In October, 1862, he returned to New York, being 
disabled by malarial fever, contracted at St. Augustine 
and Key West. He was then assigned to duty as Medical 
Director of Transportation at New York ; but was again 
ordered to the South on temporary service, August 25, 

1863, and assigned to duty as Chief Medical Officer at 
Morris Island, Cliarleston Harbor. October 17 of the 
same year he was again assigned as Medical Director of 
Transportation at New York. He resigned his commis- 
sion, and his resignation was accepted March 5, 1864. 

He is not married. 



JOHN CALL DALTON. 39 

Titles of books and pamphlets written and published : — 

On the Corpus Luteum of Menstruation and Pregnancy. 
The Prize Essay of the American Medical Association for 
1850. Philadelphia, 1851. 8vo. pp. 100. 

Some Account of the Proteus Anguinus. Reprinted from 
the American Journal of Science and Arts, May, 1853. 
8vo. pp. 8. 

Observations on the Anatomy of the Placenta. Reprinted 
from tlie American Medical Monthly. New York, July, 

1858. 8vo. pp. 14. 

The Rapidity and Extent of the Physical and Chemical 
Changes in the Interior of tlie Body. From the Transac- 
tions of the New York Academy of Medicine. New York, 

1859. Svo. pp. 26. 

A Treatise on Human Physiology. For Students and 
Practitioners of Medicine. Philadelphia, 1859. 8vo. 
pp. 608. 

History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood. 
An Introductory Address. New York, 1860. 8vo. pp. 24. 

Lectures on the Physiology of the Circulation. From the 
American Medical Monthly. New York, April to December, 
1860. 

Lectures on the Physiology of the Cranial Nerves. From 
the American Medical Times. New York, February 2 to 
March 16, 1861. 

Observations on Trichina Spiralis. From the Transac- 
tions of the New York Academy of Medicine. New York, 
1864. 8vo. pp. 18. 

Report on the Physical Condition of Exchanged Prisoners 
at Wilmington, N. C, in March, 1865; forming a part of 
the Document of the United States Sanitary Commission, 
No. 87. New York, 1865. 

Yivisection : what it is, and what it has accomplished. 
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. New 
York, 1867. 8vo. pp. 40. 



40 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Report of the Commission of the New York State Agri- 
cultural Society for the Investigation of Abortion in Cows. 
Albany, 1868. 8vo. pp. 59. 

A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene. For Schools, 
Families, and Colleges. New York, 1868. 12mo. pp. 400. 

Present address, No. 41 West 48th Street, New York. 

October 20, 1868. 



41 



^HENRY TALLMAN DAVIS, 

HENRY TALLMAN DAVIS, son of Jolni Watson 
(H. C. 1810) and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, 
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Mar€li 16, 1823. 

His grandfather on the father's side was the Hon. John 
Davis, for many years Judge of the United States District 
Court. His grandmother on the same side was Ellen 
Watson. Through them he traced his descent to the 
Winslows, Brewsters, Bradfords, Wendells, and other early 
New England and New York families. 

He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and 
entered Harvard College with the Class of 1844 as a Fresh- 
man, remaining with them till they graduated. 

After graduating he studied law in the Dane Law School, 
and, in the office of Sohier and Welch, Boston. He was 
admitted to the bar, and practised his profession for a short 
time, but afterward engaged in business, still continuing 
to reside in his native city.' In 1855-56 he visited Europe, 
remaining absent about a year. 

On the 31st of October, 1861, he obtained a commission 
as Second Lieutenant in the First Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteer Cavalry, and left Boston with the regiment for 
the seat of war on the 25th of December, 1861. His pro- 
motion as First Lieutenant is dated May 1, 1862. 

In February, 1863, at the special and urgent request of 
Brigadier-General Charles Devens, Lieutenant Davis was 
detailed by the War Department to serve on his staff as 
aide-de-camp. He joined that officer, then in command of 
a brigade in the Sixth Army Corps, a-t the camp before 



42 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Fredericksburg, and when, ten days before the battle of 
Chancellorsville, General Devens was transferred to the 
command of the First Division of the Eleventh Corps, 
Davis accompanied him. At that battle he behaved with 
great gallantry, and was strongly recommended for a 
brevet by his commander. The recommendation was not 
acted upon immediately ; but finally, March 2, 1867, he 
received the commission of Brevet Major " for gallant and 
meritorious services at the battle of Chancellorsville." 

In the same action General Devens was so severely 
wounded as to be incapacitated for service in the field for 
the remainder of the year. During a part of this time he 
was in command of tiie Draft Rendezvous in Boston Har- 
bor, whither Davis accompanied him as a member of his 
personal staff, also acting as the Adjutant-General of the 
post. 

Before General Devens again took the field, which was in 
the spring of 1864, a peremptory order had been issued by 
the War Department requiring all regimental officers serv- 
ing on the staffs of general officers to be returned to their 
regiments, unless those regiments were under the immedi- 
ate command of the generals with whom they were serving. 
As the First Massachusetts Cavalry was not under General 
Devens's command, Lieutenant Davis was obliged to relin- 
quish the position he held on that officer's staff. They 
parted with mutual regret. 

Writing to the Class Secretary, May 14, 1869, General 
(now Judge) Devens says : — 

" I can say most truly that Davis's whole service with me was 
most honorable to him ; that he was thoroughly brave, intelligent, 
and efficient ; and I have, whenever opportunity has been afforded 
me since, endeavored to testify my regard for him and my respect 
for his bravery and fidelity. 

" While he was on my staff I made every effort to have him 
promoted ; but he was a regimental officer, and that matter rested 



HENRY TALLMAN DAVIS. 43 

with the commander of the regiment, "vvho thought it his duty to 
prefer those officers who actually served with the regiment. In 
consequence of this he lost rank rather than gained it by his posi- 
tion ; and when it became necessary that he should return to his 
regiment, he found that he would be compelled to serve under those 
who had been his juniors, — a state of things which induced him to 
tender his resignation, and which, I think, justified him in doing so." 

The propriety of his taking this step was also recognized 
by the late Governor Andrew, to whom Davis tendered his 
resignation, which was accepted April 9, 1864. He endeav- 
ored, without success, to obtain a new commission in the 
volunteer force, and on the termination of the war was 
contemplating a return to mercantile pursuits, when the 
creation of several new regiments in the regular army, in 
July, 1866, afforded him another opportunity for re-entering 
the service, to which he had become much attached. 

He at once sought a commission in one of these regi- 
ments. His application was Avarmly seconded by Major- 
General Devens and many other distinguished officers with 
whom he had become acquainted during the war, especially 
by Major-General D. N. Couch. It was successful, and he 
received a commission, dated 28 July, 1866, as Captain in 
the Tenth Regiment of Cavalry, United States Army, com- 
posed of colored troops. He had been previously offered a 
captaincy in one of the new Infantry regiments (white), 
but declined it, preferring that arm of the service with 
which he had become familiar during the war. 

The regiment was assigned for duty in the Department of 
the Missouri, under the immediate command of General 
W. S. Hancock, and subsequently of General P. H. Sheri- 
dan, and the several companies were stationed at Eorts 
Riley, Hays, and other posts, principally within the limits of 
the State of Kansas. In the first year of its existence it 
was chiefly occupied in completing its enlistment and in 
acquiring the necessary drill and discipline, and Major 



44 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Davis was for some time employed on recruiting service at 
Memphis, Tennessee. When, in the spring of 1868, his 
company took the field to participate in the campaign of 
that year against the Indians, he was obliged by ill-health 
to remain behind at Fort Hays. 

Writing from that post to the Class Secretary, June 6, 
1868, he says : — 

" At present I am laid up here, slowly recovering from a very 
severe attack of pleurisy and bronchitis which came upon me a 
month ago. My company has marched one hundred miles farther 
west, into the heart of the Cheyenne country. I am very impa- 
tient to join it, and refused a long sick leave offered me by General 
Sheridan in person." 

Still remaining unfit for duty, however, he was soon after 
obliged to accept the leave of absence tendered him, and 
passed the autumn at Lenox, Massachusetts, where he had 
relatives. In the ensuing winter he went to New York, and 
his health seemed to be improving, when on the 6th of 
March, he had a sudden relapse, followed by a more violent 
attack on the 12tli, and succeeded, on the 21st, by partial 
paralysis. He lingered nearly three weeks, remaining, the 
greater part of the time, unconscious, and died on the 10th 
of April, 1869. 

The immediate cause of his death was ascertained to be 
inflammation of the lungs; two abcesses were also found 
in the brain. He died at the New York Hospital, whither 
he had been removed for the sake of greater quiet and 
more constant and careful nursing than were possible in 
the boarding-house where he had been living. Devoted 
relatives were with him in his last moments, from whom he 
received every attention and kindness. 

He was never married ; and, with the exception of one 
brother, at the time of his death absent at sea, all his 
immediate family had died before him. Yet his loss will 
be deeply felt by a wide circle of friends, to whom he was 



HENRY TALLMAN DAVIS. 45 

endeared by his many amiable and kindly social qualities. 
He was a man of refined and cultivated tastes, conversant 
with literature, having himself no mean literary ability, a 
charming letter-writer, a genial companion, a brave soldier, 
and a true friend. 

Letters received since his death show that he had a strong 
hold upon the regard and affection of the officers with 
whom he served and the men whom he commanded. 

His funeral took place in Boston, on the 13th of April, at 
the Church of the Advent, which he was in the habit of 
attending during his last visits to his native city. 

May, 1869. 



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46 



E 



EDMUND DWIGHT. 

DMUND DWIGHT, son of Edmund and Mary (Eliot) 
Dwight, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sep- 
tember 3, 1824. 

He joined the Class at the beginning of the Sophomore 
year, and graduated in 1844. 

In 1846, and again in 1851-52, he travelled in Europe. 

He was married, January 24, 1855, to Ellen, daughter of 
Joseph Coolidge, Esq., of Boston. 

In 1851 he became Treasurer of the Chicopee Manufac- 
turing Company, and in 1863 Treasurer of the Naumkeag 
Steam Mills, The last position he still holds. 

He is at present temporarily absent in Europe. 

May, 1869. 



47 



AMOS HENRY FARNSWORTH. 

AMOS HENRY FARNSWORTH, son of Amos (M. D. 
1813) and (Mary Bourne) Farnsworth, was born in 
Boston, Massachusetts, August 8, 1825. 

He entered college as a Freshman, and graduated with 
the Class in 1844. 

In 1845 - 46 he was a student in the Dane Law School, 
and in 1846 received the degree of LL. B. 
He now resides in Troy, New York. 

May, 1869. 



48 



GEORGE FAULKNER. 

GEORGE FAULKNER was born in Billerica, Massa- 
chusetts, July 14, 1819, and is the youngest child of 
Francis and Ann (Rabbins) Faulkn&r. 

His father, who died in 1843, aged eighty-two years, is 
believed to be the earliest manufacturer of woollens in this 
country. 

He received instruction at the academies in Billerica and 
in Westford, and at the age of fifteen went into a store 
in Boston. In about three years he became dissatisfied 
with trade, and abandoned it for study. 

After one year and one quarter at the academy at Leices- 
ter, and one year at Phillips Academy at Exeter, New 
Hampshire, he entered Harvard College with the Class as a 
Freshman. 

He taught a district school each winter of his college life. 

On graduating he went to Keene, New Hampshire, and 
passed one year with the famous surgeon, Dr. Amos 
Twitchell, completing his medical studies in Boston. 

The day he received his degree in medicine (August 25, 
1847) he married Mary A. Spalding, of Billerica, and settled 
for life at Jamaica Plain. Of three daughters, but one 
survives. His active life presents no more incidents than 
belong to the career of an ordinary working country 
doctor. 

In religion he is a Puritan ; in politics, a Conservative. 

February, 1869. 



49 



TAPPAN EUSTIS FEANCIS. 

TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS, son of Nathaniel and 
Eliza (Knox) Francis, was born in Boston, Massachu- 
setts, August 28, 1823. 

^e became, in 1835, a pupil in the Boston Public Latin 
School, where he was fitted for college. He entered Har- 
vard with the Class as a Freshman, remained through the 
course, and graduated at Commencement. 

After graduating he studied in the Medical School of 
Harvard University, under Dr. Jacob Bigelow and Dr. Cot- 
ting, and in 1817 received the degree of M. D. 

He was married. May 9, 1855, to Helen, daughter of Dr. 
Samuel Shurtleff. They have had four children : one girl, 
who died, and three boys, — Nathaniel Atwood, George 
Hills, and Carleton Shurtleff. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
and practises his profession in Brookline, Massachusetts. 

May, 1869. 



50 



^RICHARD FREDERIC FULLER. 

RICHARD FREDERIC FULLER, fourth son of Hon. 
Timothy (H. C. 1801) and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, 
was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 15, 1824. 
Having been fitted for college, at the age of sixteen he en- 
tered a store in Boston, at the solicitation of his family ; but 
mercantile life proving very distasteful to him, he relin- 
quished it at the end of one year. By severe application 
he in six months made up for this lost year, at the same 
time keeping pace with the studies of the Sophomore Class, 
and was admitted to college in the middle of the Sopho- 
more year. He graduated with high rank in the Class. 

After graduation he studied law in Greenfield, Massa- 
chusetts, spent a year at the Cambridge Law School, and, 
having completed his studies in the office of his uncle, 
Henry H. Fuller, Esq., in Boston, was admitted to the bar, 
on examination in open court, December, 1846, at the age 
of twenty-two, and became, and continued for two years to 
be, the law partner of his uncle, and subsequently prac- 
tised law, without a partner, in Boston. 

He was married, first, February 6, 1849, to Sarah Kol- 
lock Batchelder, who died January 10, 1856 ; second, 
March 31, 1857, to Adeline R. Reeves. 

Children by first marriage : Frederic Timothy, Arthur 
Angelo (died young), Sarah Margaret (died young), Grace. 
Child by second marriage : Eugene. 

He died May 30, 1869, at his residence in Wayland, 
Massachusetts, after an illness of four weeks. 



51 



BENJAMIN APTHOEP GOULD. 

BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD was born in Boston, 
Massachusetts, on the 2Tth of September, 1824. 

His father, Benjamm Apthorp Gould (H. C. 1814), was 
Principal of the Boston Latin School from 1814 to 1828, and 
afterward engaged in mercantile business with China and 
the East Indies. He was sixth in descent from the first 
American ancestor, and son of Captain Benjamin Gould, 
an officer of the Revolutionary army, and Grizzel Apthorp 
Flagg. 

His mother, Lucretia Dana Goddard, daughter of Na- 
thaniel Goddard and Lucretia Dana, was sixth in descent 
from the first American ancestor. Her grandfather was 
an officer of the army of the Revolution. 

Before entering college he lived in Boston, except dur- 
ing a little more than two years, beginning at the age of 
four, when he was with his grandfather's family in New- 
buryport, under charge of his aunt, Miss Hannah F. 
Gould. 

He passed two years at Mr. G. F. Thayer's school, and 
one at Mr. H. W. Pickering's ; also three months at the 
Academy in Framingham ; and was fitted for college at the 
Boston Latin School. 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, work- 
ing hard, but not with sufficient regard to college routine. 
He found Channing a severe trial. Much embarrassed for 
want of means, owing to pecuniary reverses of his father, he 
taught school in Lexington, Massachusetts, during the win- 
ters of the Senior and Junior years. He spoke at the Junior 
and Senior Exhibitions, and had a part assigned to him at 



52 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Commencement, which he was not permitted to deliver for 
want of declamatory ability. 

Three months before graduation he took charge of the 
Roxbury Latin School, which till then had been a High 
School. He taught there for one year. In July, 1845, he 
sailed for Europe to study astronomy, working at the Royal 
Observatory, Greenwich, three months ; at the Paris Ob- 
servatory four months ; at the Berlin Observatory a year ; 
at Gottingen Observatory a year : Altona Observatory four 
months ; Gotha Observatory one month. He visited all 
other important observatories of Europe, and travelled in 
Italy, Hungary, Bohemia, and Russia, returning home in 
December, 1848. He taught mathematics, French, and 
German for more than two years. In November, 1849, he 
established the Astronomical Journal, and edited and sup- 
ported it until 1861, — no articles being admitted excepting 
original investigations. Appointed to the charge of the 
longitude determinations of the Coast Survey in 1852, he 
retained this position until May, 1867, accompanying the 
parties to the field for the first four years, until they were 
trained to their work. He was Director of the Dudley Ob- 
servatory in Albany from 1855 to 1859, and equipped and 
organized the institution, carrying it on without remunera- 
tion and at his private expense. He left Albany in February, 
1859, after a personal residence of a year, and a severe strug- 
gle with some of the trustees of the Observatory to preserve 
the institution for purposes of scientific investigation, — a 
contest which was unsuccessful, although the Director acted 
in behalf of the Scientific Council to whom its charge had 
been formally committed, and although he was supported 
and his course approved by the chief citizens of Albany and 
by the body of scientific men throughout the country. 

The death of his father, in October, 1859, rendered it im- 
perative for him to take charge of his business as executor ; 
and the peculiar state of commercial relations at the time 



BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. 53 

entailed the necessity of continuing the business for four 
years and upwards. This having been successfully accom- 
plished, he returned to astronomical studies, which had 
never been entirely interrupted. In 1862 he was appointed 
to reduce and compute those astronomical observations at 
the Washington Observatory which had never been reduced, 
and which, upon the flight of Maury after the discovery of 
his treason in 1861, had been found to comprise about five 
sixths of all that had been made since the establishment of 
the institution. The printing of only two years' observa- 
tions has yet been completed. 

He has struggled for twenty years to gain the means 
to make investigations which require astronomical instru- 
ments and assistance beyond the power of most private in- 
dividuals to obtain. At forty-four his hopefulness and faith 
have begun to subside, but are not altogether gone. 

In 1864 he took charge of the statistical department of the 
United States Sanitary Commission, and for four years col- 
lected and computed data illustrative of the number, charac- 
ter, and physical conformation of our soldiers during the war 
of the Rebellion. The preparation of the results v/as com- 
pleted in July, 1868, but the printing was not finished 
until March, 1869. 

On the completion of the submarine Atlantic telegraph 
in 1866 he visited Valencia, in Ireland, to determine the 
longitude of the two continents by means of telegraphic 
signals, — a work which was successfully completed in No- 
vember of that year. 

He is member of the National Academy of Sciences of the 
United States ; of the Academies, or Royal or Philosophical 
Societies, of Boston, Philadelphia, Cherbourg, Gottingen, 
Marburg, Nashville, New Orleans ; Royal Astronomical So- 
ciety of London, &c. ; President of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science ; Member of the So- 
ciety of the Cincinnati. 



54 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

He served neither in army nor navy during the Rebelhon, 
owing to no fault of his own, but to a near-sightedness 
which was regarded as an incapacity. He was, however, 
more than once engaged in special government service, in 
behalf of military operations. 

He was married, October 29, 1861, to Mary Apthorp 
Quincy, daughter of Josiah Quincy, Jr. (H. C. 1821) and 
Mary Jane (Miller). 

Children : Susan Morton Quincy, born August 26, 1862 ; 
Lucretia Goddard, November 20, 1864 ; Alexandra Bache, 
January 5, 1868. 

Publications : — 

On the Relative Positions of the Orbits of the Asteroids, 
pp. 18. 4to. 1848. 

History of tlie Discovery of the Planet Neptune, pp. 56. 
8vo. Smithsonian Inst. 1849. 

Deposition in the History of the Electric Telegraph, pp. 
18. 4to. 1850. 

On the Telocity of Telegraphic Signals. Proceedings 
of American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
1850. 

On the Notation of the Asteroids. Astronomical Journal, 
1851. 

Address in Commemoration of Sears Cook Walker, pp. 
28. 8vo. Washington, 1854. 

Application of Peirce's Criterion to the Rejection of 
Doubtful Observations. Astronomical Journal, 1855. 

An American University. Address before the ^. B. K. So- 
ciety of Trinity College, Hartford, pp. 32. 1856. 

On the Meridian Instruments of the Dudley Observatory. 
Proceedings American Association for the Advancement of 
Science. 1856. 

The Solar Parallax as deduced from the Observations of 
the United States Astronomical Expedition to Chile, pp. 
128. 4to. 1858. 



BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. 55 

Reply to "Statement of the Trustees" of the Dudley 
Observatory, pp. 36G. Albany, 1859. 

Standard Places of One Hundred and Seventy-six Fun- 
damental Stars. Washington, 1862 (2d edition, 1866). 

Boston Harbor. A Series of Letters, republished by the 
City Council of Boston, pp. 64. 1863. 

Eulogy on Joseph Stillman Hubbard, pp. 44. Annual 
National Academy. 1864. 

Reduction of the Observations made at the United States 
Naval Observatory at Washington, during the Years 1851- 
1860. Six volumes. 

Reduction of the Zones of Stars observed at the United 
States Naval Observatory at Washington during the Years 
1846 - 1849. Four volumes. 

Reduction of the Observations of Fixed Stars made by 
Joseph Le Paute d'Agelet, at Paris, in 1783-85, with a 
Catalogue of their corresponding Mean Places, pp. 261. 
4to. Washington. 

The United States Naval Observatory at Washington. 
National Almanac, 1864. p. 88. 

On the Reduction of Photographic Observations of Stars, 
with a determination of the Position of the Pleiades, from 
Photographs by Mr. Rutherford. Memoirs National Acad- 
emy. 1866. 

Eulogy on James Melville Gillis. pp. 57. Annual 
National Academy of Sciences. 1866. 

Observations and Catalogue of the Right-Ascensions of 
Stars withm one Degree of the North Pole. Memoirs 
National Academy of Sciences. 1866. 

Ages of United States Yolunteer Soldiery, pp. 43. 8vo. 
Sanitary Commission, 1866. 

Observations in 1866 and 1867 of the Right-Ascension of 
Stars observed by D'Agelet in 1783 - 85. Memoirs National 
Academy, of Sciences, 1867. 

Determination of the proper Motion of Stars first observed 
by J. Le Paute d'Agelet. Ibid. 1867. 



56 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

On the Trans-Atlantic Longitude. Report to the United 
States Coast Survey. Smithsonian Institution Contribution. 

Address in Commemoration of Alexander Dallas Bache. 
pp. 56. Proceedings of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. 1868. 

Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statis- 
tics of American Soldiers, pp. 655. United States Sani- 
tary Commission. 1869. 

Also, Reports on Longitude to the United States Coast 
Survey, from 1853 till 1867. 

Articles in the AstronomiscJie NacJirichten^ since 1847 ; 
articles in the Astronomical Journal, from 1849 to 1861 ; 
and sundry articles in popular journals and reviews. * 

Present residence and address : Cambridge, Mass. 

April 5, 1869, 



67 



SAMUEL SEWALL GEEELEY. 

SAMUEL SEWALL GEEELEY was born in Boston, 
Massachusetts, October 11, 1824, and is the son of 
Samuel Greele, of the Class of 1802, and of Louisa May, 
his wife, daughter of the late Colonel Joseph May, of 
Boston. He was fitted for college mainly at Groton and 
Framingham Academies. 

After graduating he taught school for a few months, first 
in Akron, Ohio, and then in Barnstable, Massacluisetts. 
In November, 1845, he entered the Eensselaer Institute, 
a mathematical and scientific school at Troy, New A^ork, 
where he studied surveying and engineering. 

In July, 1846, he left the school for an engagement in the 
Engineer Corps of the Boston Water-Works, upon which he 
was employed till their completion, in the fall of 1848. 
The next year and a half he passed at Cuttingsville, near 
Eutland, Vermont, as assistant engineer in the construction 
of the Eutland Eailroad ; and part of the year following he 
was employed at or near Alexandria, Yirginia, upon the 
Orange and Alexandria Eailroad. 

In July, 1852, he went to Europe, and spent nine months 
abroad principally in studying and attending lectures in 
Earis. 

In October, 1853, he went to Chicago, Illinois, which has 
been his home since that time, and where he has made land- 
surveying his principal business. During this interval of 
sixteen years Chicago has grown from a town of thirty 
thousand to a city of three hundred thousand inhabitants, 



58 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

and, without intending a professional pun, he may be said to 
have been instrumental in laying out a considerable part 
of it. 

In June, 1855, he married Annie M. Larned, daughter of 
the late John Larned, Esq., of Providence, Rhode Island 
She died in January, 1864 ; and in October, 1866, he mar- 
ried Eliza M. Wells, daughter of Thomas G. Wells, Esq., 
of Brookline, Massachusetts. 

The children of the first marriage were three boys, now 
living, and of the second a daughter, who died at the age of 
one year. 

He changed his name from Greele to Greeley to prevent a 
mispronunciation common in the West. 



59 



GEOEGE SILSBEE HALE. 

r^ EORGE SILSBEE HALE was born in Keene, New 
V_X Hampshire, September 24, 1825. His father was 
Hon. Salma Hale, printer, editor, clerk of the courts, 
lawyer, author of Hale's History of the United States, 
member of Congress 1817-18, 1818- 19, and of the State 
Legislature, Secretary to the commissioners under the fifth 
article of the Treaty of Ghent for determining part of the 
boundary line between the territory of the United States 
and Great Britain. (See notice of him in New England 
Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1867, p. 292.) 

His mother was Sarah K. King, daughter of Seth King, 
of Sufiield, Connecticut, and Susan Eobes, of Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts. 

He resided at Keene in early life. When he was nine 
years old he went for a short time to an academy at Walpole, 
New Hampshire, kept by Mr. Gardiner; afterward to a 
school at Concord, New Hampshire, kept by T. D. P. Stone ; 
subsequently, in 1839, to Phillips Exeter Academy, of which 
Gideon Soule was then principal ; and to Harvard College 
in 1840. 

After graduating with the Class he remained a year at 
Keene, then entered the Law School at Cambridge, where 
he remained for a year, holding a proctorship in the college. 
He then went to Richmond, Virginia, and taught in a school 
for girls, under the charge of Mrs. A M. Mead, for about a 
year and a half; then came to the North, and in December 
sailed for Europe with (now) Professor Josiah Parsons 
Cooke ; visited England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Ger- 



60 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

many, Holland, travelling a great deal on foot, mostly in 
Italy and Switzerland, a large part of the time with E. A 
"Wild, returning home at the close of 1849. 

January 4, 1850, he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk 
County, Massachusetts, in the Supreme Judicial Court, and 
has ever since practised law in Boston. 

He has been twice, in 1857, and in 1863 and 1864, a 
member of the Common Council of the city of Boston, and, 
during the two last-named years, its president. He is now 
an overseer of the poor of that city. He is a member of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the New Eng- 
land Historic Genealogical Society, and a trustee on tlie 
part of the State of Massachusetts of the Perkins Institu- 
tion for the Blind. 

He was married, on the 25th of November, 1868, to Ellen 
Sever Tebbets, daughter of John Sever, late of Kingston, 
Massachusetts, and widow of the Eev. Theodore Tebbets. 
Her mother's name was Anna Dana, of Groton, Mass. 

He edited, with George P. Sanger, at one time, and with 
John Codman at another, the sixteenth, seventeenth, and 
eighteenth volumes of the Boston Law Reporter ; alone, 
the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth volumes of tlie 
United States Digest, and the nineteenth with H. Farnam 
Smith. He has written articles in the London Law Maga- 
zine and Law Times, and the American Law Review, and 
edited the Manual for the Overseers of the Poor of Boston. 
He has been from February, 1857, until its consolidation 
w^ith the Western Railroad Corporation, the solicitor of the 
Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation, and since that 
time, that of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, 
into which the two former corporations were merged. He 
has been engaged in many suits for these corporations, as 
well as for other clients. 

He resides in Boston, and has an office at No. 39 Court 
Street. 



61 



JOHN ADAMS HARRIS. 

JOHN ADAMS HARRIS, eldest son of the late Dr. 
Luther Metcalf and Lucy Dutton (Mann) Harris, was 
boru in Milton, Massachusetts, January 26, 1821. 

He is the sixth in descent from the emigrant Robert Har- 
ris, \yhose marriage with Elizabeth Broughey, in 16^1:2-43, 
is recorded in the registry of Roxbury, and who in 1655 
"• entered upon the beautiful grounds in Brookline, then a 
part of Boston, on which he passed the remainder of his 
life, and which remained in unbroken possession of his 
descendants until 1828." 

Dr. Luther Metcalf Harris, father of John Adams Har- 
ris, graduated at Brown University iu 1811. He was 
universally beloved and respected in the community for 
his genial manners, varied talents, sound wisdom, and pro- 
fessional skill. In the latter years of his life he gave much 
attention to antiquarian research, and published a geneal- 
ogy of his ancestor, Robert Harris, and also a portion of the 
Metcalf genealogy. His wife was the daughter of Major 
John Mann, of Orford, New Hampshire, son of John Mann, 
Esq., one of the first settlers of that place. John Mann, 
Esq., was the great-grandson of the Rev. Samuel Mann, the 
first minister of Wrcntham, Massachusetts, and was de- 
scended from Richard Mann, a planter, who came over in 
the Mayflower. 

John Adams Harris, after passing creditably through the 
primary and grammar schools at Jamaica Plain, was fitted 
for college at Charles W. Greene's well-known academy, and 
entered Harvard College with the Class of 1844 as a Fresh- 



62 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

man. During his college course he maintained an honorable 
position in his Class, but his health failing he was compelled, 
in the beginning of the Junior year, to relinquish study. 
He therefore left Cambridge, and, thinking that a sea voy- 
age might prove beneficial, embarked for Russia in the ship 
Hamilton. He was absent about a year. 

On his return home, finding the climate of New England 
uncongenial, he removed to Eureka, Woodford County, 
Illinois, where he became a teacher in Eureka College. 

On the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he en- 
listed, 26 February, 1862, as a private in the Seventeenth 
Regiment Illinois Yolunteers, and was present at the siege 
of Vicksburg under General Grant. In November, 1863, 
he was transferred to the Fourth Veteran Reserve Corps, 
and March 7, 1865, was mustered out of service. 

After the close of the war, in June, 1865, he paid a visit 
to his family at Jamaica Plain, passing several months with 
them. He then returned to Yicksburg and engaged in 
business there. 

He has at various times written many articles for periodi- 
cals, consisting of poems, art criticisms, and essays on liter- 
ature, politics, and other subjects. In 1866 he received 
from the college, on petition of his classmates, his degree of 
A. B., restoring him to his standing in the Class. 

He has never married. He resides at present at Rose- 
dale, Bolivar County, Mississippi, and is engaged in plant- 
ing. 

May 5, 1869. 



63 



SHATTUCK HARTWELL. 

SHATTUCK HARTWELL, sou of Hon. Jonathan and 
Elizabeth Briard (Walker) Hartwell, was born in Lit- 
tleton, Massachusetts, February 9, 1822. His father, who 
was a descendant of Benjamin Shattuck, the first minister 
of Littleton, was a farmer, and a member of the Massachu- 
setts Senate. 

He was brought up farmer-wise until the age of fifteen. 
He then went to Pinkerton Academy at Derry, New Hamp- 
shire, without any intention of going to college, but during 
the year, with the advice of his teacher, and consent of his 
friends, began fitting for Harvard College. He entered col- 
lege in 1840, graduated in 1844 ; was Proctor one year and 
Tutor in Latin four years ; at the same time studying in 
the Dane Law School for two or three years, in 1846 he 
received the degree of LL.B., and in 1848 was admitted 
to the bar. 

He was married, July 26, 1849, at Cincinnati, Ohio, to 
Catherine S., daughter of Professor R. D. and Hitty (Os- 
good) Mussey. He has six children living, — two girls and 
four boys. 

In the fall of 1850 he removed to Cincinnati, remaining 
there in the practice of his profession until the spring of 
1857, when he returned to Littleton, where he still resides. 

He was a member of the House of Representatives in 
the Massachusetts Legislature in 1859, and in the same 
year was one of the Committee appointed to revise the 
Statutes of Massachusetts. 

During the war of the Rebellion he served as volunteer 



64 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

aide-de-camp, without rank, on the staff of Major-General 
Butler, receiving his appointment in October, 1864. He 
subsequently held a similar position on the staff of his 
classmate, Brigadier-General Wild. 

In October, 1865, he was appointed Disbursing Clerk in 
the Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, which position 
he still holds. 

May, 1869. 



65 



*HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH. 

HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH, son of Joseph and 
Per sis (Florida) Hildreth, was born in Bolton, Mas- 
sachusetts, October 23, 1820. 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, 
and remained through the course, attaining high distinc- 
tion in the Classics, and a rank above the average in His- 
tory. He had parts at two of the College Exhibitions, and 
at Commencement his share in the exercises of the day was 
a dissertation, " The Agamemnon of ^schylus." 

After graduating he was employed in teaching, which ill 
health obliged him to relinquish after a little more than a 
year. 

He died, unmarried, at Brattleboro', Yermont, August 3, 
1852. 

May, 1869- 



66 



*EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 

IN the spring of 1868 the Class Secretary, in accordance with a 
vote of the Class at the preceding Commencement, sent to each of 
its members a circular letter requesting his photograph for a Class 
Album. One of these circulars was addressed to Ebenezer Pierce 
Hinds, at Pittston, Maine, with not a few misgivings as to whether 
it would reach the person for whom it w^as intended. Many- 
years had passed since Mr. Hinds had been seen or heard from. 
He had never been present at any Class meeting, no one in the 
Class, so far as could be ascertained, had met with him since gradu- 
ation, or could give any information concerning him, and it seemed 
barely possible that he could still be residing in the home of his 
college days. An answer, however, was soon after received from 
a relative, enclosing the photograph asked for, and also conveying the 
intelligence of the death of Mr. Hinds, of disease contracted at 
Harrison's Landing, while serving as a private soldier in the Union 
army. 

Nearly six years had elapsed since his death, when it first be- 
came known to his classmates ; his name still stood, unmarked by a 
star, in the Triennial Catalogue, no mention was made of him in 
the " Harvard Memorial Biographies," his name was omitted in 
the " Roll of Honor of the Graduates of Harvard," nor had the 
indefatigable compiler of the "Necrology of the Harvard Alumni" 
learned the fact of his decease. Only a fortunate accident, as it 
seemed, at last rescued from oblivion the memory of the solitary 
martyr of the Class of 1844 in the great war of the Rebellion. 

The Class Secretary at once communicated the fact of Mr. 
Hinds's death, and the circumstances attending it, so far as then 
known, to the editors of the Triennial Catalogue and of the 
Roll of Honor, and also to the editor of the Harvard Memorial 
Biographies. Learning from the latter that, if a notice of Mr. 



EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 67 

Hinds could be prepared, it would be printed in a supplemental 
form, to be inserted in future copies of tlie work edited by him, 
the Secretary at once set about procuring materials for such no- 
tice, and, finding no one else to do it, finally himself undertook its 
compilation. The result is now in press ; forming, with sketches of 
others whose names have been omitted, a supplement to the already 
published volumes of the Harvard Memorial Biographies. The 
memoir here printed contains some particulars which, from want 
of space, could not be inserted in that work. 

Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was the eldest child of Ebenezer 
and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and was born, according to 
the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Liver- 
more, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the fifth in descent 
from Ebenezer Hinds, who in 1776 was a Presbyterian 
preacher in Middleboro', Massachusetts, and was also the 
fifth of the family who from father to son bore the same 
baptismal name. In 1801 his grandfather and father left 
Middleboro', which had been the residence of the family for 
four generations, and emigrated to Maine. His father was 
for many years a master shipbuilder at Pittston in that 
State, where he is still living. 

His early education was pursued under the ordinary 
difficulties attending an ardent thirst for knowledge com- 
bined with narrow means and scanty opportunities. Be- 
yond the rudiments, acquired under the care of an aunt, 
and such instruction as the common school afforded, he was 
in the main self-taught ; though before entering college he 
was for a few terms a pupil in the Gardiner Lyceum and at 
the Read field Seminary, both in the neighborhood of his 
home at Pittston. He had also learned to avail himself of 
the poor scholar's usual resource, and had already taught a 
great many common schools. 

He first entered Harvard College as a Freshman in the 
Class which graduated in 1843 ; but remained only till the 
end of their first year ; when he left Cambridge and re- 



68 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

sumed school- teaching in order to provide the means of com- 
pleting liis college course, as his father was unable to bear 
the wliole cost of his education. On returning he joined 
the Class of 1844, in the second term of their Junior year, 
and remained with them till they graduated. 

His rank in the Class was more than respectable. Ac- 
cording to the printed Order of Exercises for Commence- 
ment, it was above the required standard in Greek and 
Mathematics, and gave him an honorable position in the 
first half of the Class. At the May Exhibition in 1844 
he was assigned a disquisition on " The Importance of 
Observatories to the Science of a Country," and at Com- 
mencement his "part" was a dissertation on "The De- 
pendence of Science on the Mechanical Arts." 

The late period at which he joined the Class, his seniority 
in age to most of its members, and his studious and retiring 
habits, combined to render him almost a stranger amongst 
those with whom he finally graduated. What intimate 
friends he had he found rather in the Class with which he 
first entered college. A member of that class (Mr. H. B. 
Maglathlin) says of him : — 

" He appeared always diffident and solitary. Those who, like 
myself, formed his acquaintance, found him not lacking in scholar- 
ship or in kindly feelings. His attainments in the languages and 
the mathematics were more than respectable. Owing, however, to 
his lack of confidence, he did not appear in recitation to as good 
advantage as many who were quite superficial. He was generous 
to a fault ; of his scanty means he would dispense without due 
thought as to his present or prospective wants. In consequence of 
this liberality, in its nature entirely instinctive, he never had any- 
pecuniary success. 

" Although excessively modest, he would not hesitate to perform 
duties where others were especially to be benefited. ... In the 
service, report says, he showed rare bravery ; and on one occasion, 
at a critical moment, when others were alarmed, he alone appeared 
entirely cool and self-possessed. 



EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 69 

" In short, I remember him as a kind-hearted, modest man, some- 
what eccentric, yet well intentioned, always thinking more for 
others than for himself." 

Another of his classmates in the Class of 1843 (Mr. 
R. B. Hildreth) says : — 

"My acquaintance with Mr. Hinds was really only during our 
Freshman year, and so reticent was he as to speaking of himself, his 
family, or his relatives, that I actually knew but little of either." 

It has not been easy to trace all the steps of his career 
after graduation. Fond at all times of solitude and of long 
rambles in the woods and fields, with no companion but 
Nature, he would often, upon some sudden impulse, set out 
upon what he would style a icalk, but which would be pro- 
lono'ed into an absence of weeks or months. One of these 

o 

tvalks seems to have culminated in a fishing voyage to the 
Banks of Newfoundland, at what precise time cannot now 
be ascertained, but somewhere about the year 1850, while 
another was prolonged till it led him to the " Far West." 
Reticent to excess, never speaking of himself even to the 
members of his own family, except when other topics failed 
him, w'hich rarely happened, the short story he would tell 
on his return from these excursions related more to others 
than to himself, and was chiefly of the knowledge he had 
gained and the people he had met. 

He resumed, however, almost immediately after leaving 
college, his old business of teaching. In 1845 - 46 he 
taught in an academy then recently established at West- 
brook, Maine ; and in the spring of 1847 he opened a school 
at Norway, Oxford County, Maine, under the title of the 
Norway Liberal Institute, to which his advertisements, 
promising an unusually numerous corps of teachers and 
an unwonted variety of studies, attracted pupils even from 
a distance of thirty miles. A lady who was one of his 
scholars at this time says : — 



70 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

" He was delighted with the materials of his school, and got a 
great deal of work out of his scholars, being then all alive with the 
enthusiasm of youth and of his chosen profession. Teaching was 
ever a passion with him, and he infected the school with his own 

zeal As a teacher, his patience was unwearied with those 

wiio really sought to know, whether apt or dull, and of such he was 
the unfailing friend ; while his disgust was unbounded for those 
who must be coaxed or dragged along He carried his schol- 
ars over a great deal of ground ; capable ones gained a great many 
ideas ; but he insisted less on exactness than is now customary in 
leading public schools. His ' Three great Rules for Scholars ' 
were, ' first, think ; second, think ; third, think.' " 

" Long walks, and many of them," were a prominent 
feature in bis system of instruction. Wednesday and Sat- 
urday afternoons were usually devoted to these excursions, 
but he would often in the spring mornings rouse twenty or 
thirty of his pupils, soon after the dawn of day, to go botan- 
izing, or lead them out at night to study the stars, regard- 
less of the keenest wind. " He and his school were for a 
time the pets of the village." A lyceum, which was formed 
in connection with the " Institute," attracted crowded audi- 
ences on the public nights. On one of these occasions he 
read a lecture, of which the manuscript has been pre- 
served. Its subject was '' The Teacher." It is evidently 
the production of a man whose heart was in his work, and 
has some eloquent passages ; though in general the style 
indicates that he thought more of what he had to say than 
of how he should say it. His views and suggestions com- 
mend themselves by their practical good sense, and are 
enlivened and illustrated by frequent touches of quaint 
humor and apt quotations of homely proverbs. In a 
passage describing some of the requisites in a teacher he 
seems to have sketched his own portrait. 

" The teacher must possess a vast amount of enthusiasm, the 
largest he can possibly use without causing mental intoxication. 



EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 71 

. . . . He should be no guide-post which points the way without 
traveUing it. He should be as a guide across our boundless West- 
ern prairies, leaving as he goes an unmistakable trail behind him." 

Farther on he characteristically says : — 

" School-books should be used, as their name indicates, as text- 
books, not as sermons. Lessons from them should be short ; the 
recitations the sermons." 

Notwithstanding, however, the great popularity both of 
himself and his school, a year had not yet elapsed when he 
became impatient at the want of alacrity shown by the 
people of Norway in fulfilling the promise they had made 
to provide a more commodious building for the Institute, 
and finally, at the end of the fall term, he entered into an 
agreement with the inhabitants of South Paris (an adjoin- 
ing town) to remove to that place so soon as a suitable 
building should be prepared for him there. 

Accordingly, in 1848, leaving the Norway Institute in 
other hands, he opened a new school at South Paris under 
the title of The Oxford Normal Institute, to which his 
established reputation as a teacher drew, at one time, as 
many as two hundred pupils. Here he taught all the higher 
branches to students of both sexes, and spared no pains or 
expense to perfect his methods of instruction, hiring assist- 
ants and purchasing apparatus with reckless prodigality. 
Here also he fitted a great number of young men for 
Bowdoin College, where it was commonly said that " no 
candidates for admission came so well prepared as Mr. 
Hinds's scholars." 

" Mr. Hinds worked incessantly at South Paris," continues his 
former pupil, " not only in his school, but in improving the house 
and grounds. He employed able teachers in the various depart- 
ments, — Dr. Young, who has been both State Botanist and Geol- 
ogist of Maine, being in charge of the Natural Sciences, — and 
exerted himself without success to obtain an appropriation from the 



72 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Legislature. After two years of unceasing philanthropic labor, — - 
' two years/ as he said, ' of struggling against fortune,' — finding cash 
returns insufficient for the demands upon him, with uncertain 
health and a morbid horror of duns, with five dollars and fifty-five 
cents in his pocket (the unexpected payment of an old debt), in the 
gray of a November morning he started privately, on foot, for the 
Great West. Once we heard of him as about to start with a cara- 
van across the Plains for California ; but sickness prevented, and 
he returned to Massachusetts, taught awhile among old friends ' on 
the Cape,' and was finally welcomed back to South Paris by friends 
who would gladly, had they known his position, have removed the 
embarrassments which sent him away." 

Of the incidents of his visit to the West nothing is known 
more than is mentioned above, except that during some 
portion of his absence he found employment in surveying 
or as a civil engineer. On his return to South Paris, after 
an absence of more than a year, he resumed his position at 
the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, and continued to 
hold it for nearly five years longer ; but failing, apparently, 
to make it remunerative in a pecuniary sense, finally aban- 
doned it in 1856. 

If his labors in Oxford County were of little profit to 
himself, the cause is to be found in the unselfish and im- 
provident nature of the man ; they were appreciated at 
least by the hundreds of pupils whom he educated, and by 
whom his memory is affectionately cherished, while the 
county holds itself indebted to him for raising the general 
standard of education, and for being chiefly instrumental 
in procuring the erection of two fine school-houses. 

His personal appearance at this time is thus described : — 

" With little love of self, he was naturally careless of personal 
appearance, and never could understand the value set by the hu- 
man race on the adornments of dress. Nature had done well by 
his person, but he refused to improve her gifts. His tall figure 
might have been graceful and commanding, but it had the habitual 



EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 78 

stoop of the scholar. His forehead was shapely, nose and mouth 
well cut, but the ill-kept black hair and beard made an unworthy 
setting. He delighted in a patch, — not so much for the sake of 
being odd, as many supposed, but, like the great Prussian King, as 
an example of economy, that no needy scholar might feel called 
upon to wear a better coat than he could afford. All reference to 

dress irritated him I can easily understand how, when he 

felt called to put on the uniform of our country's defenders, he 
turned from the miseries of bright buttons, shoulder-straps, and 
military etiquette, and chose 

* The plain blue coat the soldiers wore.' " 

After leaving South Paris he taught a school for three 
years at Livermore Falls, and in 1859 went to Aroostook 
County, where, under the liberal laws of the State in favor 
of settlers on the public domain, he acquired, at a small 
outlay, a title to a tract of about one hundred acres, or, in 
local phraseology, " took up wild land and made himself a 
farm." He had not, however, abandoned altogether his 
favorite occupation of teaching. " To open a school in the 
forest " was one of his most cherished plans for the future, 
and was only postponed till he had completed his clearing 
and built himself a house, while in the mean time he still 
continued to teach in the intervals of his farm labors, dur- 
ing the long Northern winters, migrating for that purpose 
from village to village. 

He embarked in this new enterprise with his accustomed 
ardor, confident of success and exultant in the thought that, 
after toiling so long for others, he was now in a position to 
benefit himself. " If I want to get property," he writes to 
his sister in the first of his letters that has been preserved, 
" here is just the place to get it. Won't go back to Oxford 
County to drudge for anybody." This letter, written in pen- 
cil, is dated " In Camp, August 8, 1859." His " farming 
operations " were going on slowly, there was " so much to be 
done." He had, however, felled already about nine acres 
5 



74 - THE CLASS OF 1844. 

of '' big trees," but had not yet built a house, had no road 
opened to the highway, and no neighbors. In Novem- 
ber of the same year he was driven out of the woods 
by the cold and wet, the rainy weather having prevented 
his finishing his house. In the mean time he had fallen 
back upon school-teaching, and writes from Ashland on the 
St. Croix River, whither he had gone " in pursuit of a short 
private school." In June, 1860, he was back at his farm, 
and had been at work there since May 14, but from want of 
help had only been able to plant, with wheat, about two 
acres. He is again at work " chopping down trees," has 
already " an opening of over ten acres," and hopes " to fell 
fiYQ or six more in a few weeks." His house does not seem 
to be finished yet ; for he closes his letter, which is dated 
at Mapleton, a village in the neighborhood, by saying, 
" Must go back to camp now." 

In October, 1860, he read an address before the North 
Aroostook Agricultural Society, at Presque Isle, on the oc- 
casion of their annual Cattle Show and Fair, which is char- 
acterized in the local newspaper, in which it is printed at 
length, as " ably written and well delivered." The follow- 
ing passage paints what must have been to him a chief 
attraction in the life he was now leading : — 

" If chopping trees be hard work, there is some poetry as well as 
plain prose in it. There is much poetry in the Hfe of a pioneer 
while camping out in the woods, with nothing to disturb the quiet 
but the hooting of owls, the chattering of squirrels, and the singing 
of birds. Poetry there is in two volumes, — Jirst, that he is doing a 
good and pious work ; second, that there is a good time coming 
when himself and family are to enjoy the fruits of his labor. 
What poetry, when a mammoth tree goes crashing down, to look up 
and get a larger view of clear blue sky, and once in a while to look 
out upon the increasing prospect of distant hills and intervening 
ridges ! " 

This life in the woods proved not a bad training for the 



EB£NEZER PIERCE HIXDS. 75 

new career upon which he was shortly to enter, and in the 
" long probation of mud and discipline," passed in Virginia 
in the winter of 1861-62, he had occasion to congratulate 
himself on having learned to make a " sleeping-berth, 
Aroostook fasliion, of boughs well laid down," while from 
every camp and battle-field, as his letters sliow, he still 
looked back with fond regret to his half-completed home in 
xVroostook, and forward with confident anticipation to the 
time when he might, " with honor," return to his farm and 
liis teaching, and when, for he was never married, his fa- 
vorite sister was to be his housekeeper and companion. 

It was from Maysville, where his farm was situated, that 
he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, Maine Volunteers, 
Company I, composed chiefly of men from that and the 
adjoining townships. Declining, with characteristic mod- 
esty, a lieutenant's commission, he entered tlie army as a pri- 
vate, saying that he thought he could serve his country bet- 
ter in that capacity than in any other. Having let his farm 
for a year" at the halves," he marched with liis company to 
the rendezvous at Augusta, where he was mustered in on the 
21st of August, 1861, and, after a short stay at Camp Ham- 
lin, left with the regiment for Baltimore, August 23d. Be- 
fore leaving home he appears to have made an agreement to 
contribute weekly a letter to " The Aroostook Pioneer," 
published at Presque Isle, the adjoining town to Maysville, 
and whose editor and publisher was his friend and neighbor. 
From these letters, which were not, however, sent with the 
regularity promised, and from those written by him to his 
sisters, the narrative of his military life is chiefly derived. 

The materials for his personal history afforded by these 
letters are, however, but scanty. In those addressed to the 
" Pioneer " he naturally says but little of himself, while in 
writing to his relatives he is always exceedingly brief, and 
his object seems to have been to allay apprehensions as to 
his safety in the minds of those dear to him, to encourage 



76 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

them in the hope of his final return, and, above all, to solicit 
letters from home in reply, rather than to entertain them with 
accounts of his personal experiences, which he probably re- 
garded as very trifling matters. " No one, not a soldier," 
he says in one of these letters, " can realize how welcome a 
letter is from home." 

Reticent as he was by nature, it was not to be expected 
that he would have much to say about his motives for en- 
listing in the army ; it was sufficient that he felt it to be 
his duty. Writing from Virginia, November 9, 1861, he 
says : — 

" In a few days we expect to be marched out to battle 

No one seems to dread it, or indeed to think much about the mat- 
ter. I can hardly tell whether I feel much anxiety about myself, 
but I do think much, very much, of the friends behind me. Will 
they remember me ? One thing is certain, sister, there is a God 
here as at home, and he will not fail to take care of any one who 
does his duty. Mine is to be here. God help me to do my duty 
like a man I " 

At Baltimore, where the regiment remained about a 
month, he " worked with the engineers " in building a fort 
on Murray Hill, and this seems to have suggested an appli- 
cation which he made, unsuccessfully, for his discharge 
from his regiment in order to enter the engineer service. 
He had perhaps already discovered that it was not as a pri- 
vate soldier that he could best serve his country. 

From Baltimore the regiment moved, on the 25th of Oc- 
tober, to Washington, and encamped on Kalorama Hill, 
remaining there about a fortnight, and then, crossing over 
into Virginia, went into what proved to be its winter 
quarters at Camp Griffin, near Lewinsville. The regiment 
was soon after brigaded, forming part of the Third Brigade 
of Smith's division, and Mr. Hinds was provided with em- 
ployment better suited to his capacity, being detailed as 
clerk to the Brigade Commissary. His duties in this 



EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS. 77 

position, which included the charge of the Brigade Hospi- 
tals, exempted him from much of the hardship and peril of 
a soldier's life, while at the same time they debarred him 
from active participation in the many gallant actions in 
which his regiment soon distinguished itself. His services 
were none the less important, and he brought to their per- 
formance the same conscientious fidelity which marked 
all that lie did. 

On the 10th of March, 1862, the Seventh Maine left 
Camp Griffin, and on the 23d embarked for Fortress Mon- 
roe. To them fell the honor of losing the first man killed 
in the Peninsular campaign, and they were among the chief 
actors in the battle at Lee's Mills, of which Mr. Hinds 
speaks as " irregular fighting," and adds, " I ran a great 
deal of risk, because I was close to our regiment." 

When, on the evacuation of Yorktown, our army once 
more advanced, Mr. Hinds was detained by his duties in 
the rear, and was not present at the battle of Williamsburg ; 
but a few days after, impatient at the delay and " anxious 
to find out where his brigade was," he " took the responsi- 
bility to move on and find orders," when he examined with 
interest the field where his comrades of the Seventh had 
" helped turn the tide of battle," and — said the comman- 
der-in-chief, who publicly thanked them for it — " saved the 
army from a disgraceful defeat." 

From this period, and during the whole time wdien the 
army lay in front of Richmond, no letters from Mr. Hinds 
reached his family or the journal of w^iicli he v^as the war 
correspondent. It is not till the 20th of July, a fortnight 
after the arrival of the army at Harrison's Landing, that he 
writes from that place to his " dear sister Louisa and good 
friends at liome." It was the last letter received from him. 
In it he says : — 

" My health is good as usual, though I should be stronger 
were I in Maine. You ask if I were in any of the battles. Not 



78 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

exactly, but nearly in two or three, but fortunately did not get 

hurt As I have told you before, have no fears for me. I 

shall return to Maine. May not this year. My love to all the 
family separately. I often think of home and wish myself there, 

but it is of no use to try to get leave of absence We shall 

have peace some time. Our country can have but one govern- 
ment, but whether that will be a Republic or Monarchy is more 
than I can determine. Good by, and God bless you all." 

Of the short remainder of his life but little has been 
learned. Not long after the date of his last letter he ap- 
pears to have been attacked by diarrhoea, and, after remain- 
ing a few days in the " rest hospital," was, with others of 
the sick, sent North while the army was preparing to evacu- 
ate the Peninsula. The steamer in which he was embarked 
bore the name of his native " State of Maine," to which, in 
his last letter, he had so confidently predicted his return. 
The prediction was indeed fulfilled to the ear, but not to 
the sense ; for on the arrival of the vessel at her destina- 
tion, he was found dead on the deck. He is supposed to 
have died on the 17th of August, 1862, as the steamer was 
entering the port of Philadelphia. His remains were hastily 
interred with those of some thirty others, all in unmarked 
and unnumbered graves, at Oak Grove Cemetery, about 
forty miles from Philadelphia ; and when a brother, on the 
news of his death, hastened to the scene of its occurrence, 
it was too late to reclaim his body or to obtain more than 
the few facts above recorded relating to his last moments. 

The date of his death as given above is that which has 
been adopted by his family; but, according to the Report of 
the Adjutant-General of the State of Maine for 1862, Mr. 
Hinds died at Philadelphia on the 2d of September in that 
year. 



79 



EDWARD SHERMAN HOAR. 

EDWARD SHERMAN HOAR, fourth child of Hon. 
Samuel (H. C. 1802) and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, 
was born m Concord, Massachusetts, December 22, 1823. 

He joined the Class in the Sophomore year, and remained 
with them till they graduated. 

After graduating he studied law one year in the Dane 
Law School, and two in New York City, and was admitted 
to practise in the courts of New York in 1848. In 1849 
he emigrated to California, where he practised law and 
traded in cattle till 1857, when he returned to Massachu- 
setts. He has since been engaged in farming, in Lincoln, 
in that State. 

He was married, December 28, 1858, to Elizabeth Hal- 
let, daughter of Moses Prichard, of Concord. 

He has one daughter, Florence by name, born at Con 
cord, January 23, 1860. 

May, 186.9- 



80 



WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT. 

WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT, eldest son of Jonathan 
and Jane (Leavitt) Hunt, was born in Brattleboro', 
Vermont, March 31, 1824. His father, who died in 1831, 
was at that time a Representative in Congress from the 
State of Vermont. 

After her husband's death, Mrs. Hunt, with her children, 
removed, first to New Haven, Connecticut, and afterward 
to Boston, Massachusetts, where they were living v/hen her 
eldest son entered college. 

His preparatory education was completed at the school 
kept in Cambridge by William Welles, and he entered 
Harvard College with the Class as a Freshman. His resi- 
dence in Cambridge was interrupted by several absences, 
sometimes in accordance with the advice of his physician, 
■ — for his health was not robust, — and sometimes at the 
recommendation of the College Faculty ; and he finally left 
the University at the beginning of the Senior year, volun- 
tarily, without taking his degree. The whole family then 
went to Europe, where they remained many years. 

He had from boyhood shown a fondness for drawing 
and modelling, and had received some instruction from 
the sculptor J. C. King, of Boston ; but his first serious 
study of art was begun at the Academy of Diisseldorf, in 
1846. Subsequently he studied in Paris under the direc- 
tion of Pradier, the sculptor, as it was his intention to make 
sculpture his profession. Being at this time (1848), how- 
ever, fascinated by the paintings of Thomas Couture, he 
was tempted to abandon sculpture and to enter his atelier^ 



WILLIAM MOERIS HUNT. 81 

where he remained steadily at work for two or three years. 
Ill the year 1851 he became intimately acquainted with 
Jean Francois Millet, to whose genius and instruction he 
considers himself deeply indebted. 

In 1854 he came to Boston, where he remained only a 
few months, and returned directly to Paris. The following 
year he came again to America, and on the 18th of October, 
1855, was married to Louisa Dumaresque, daughter of the 
late Thomas Handasyd and Frances (Dumaresque) Perkins. 

The first year of his married life was spent in his 
native town, Brattleboro', Vermont ; the seven subsequent 
years in Newport, Rhode Island. He then settled in Bos- 
ton, which has continued to be his permanent place of 
residence, although he revisited Europe during the years 
1866, 1867, and 1868. 

He has three daughters living, his eldest child, a boy, 
having died in infancy. 

While a student in Paris his pictures were received in 
the anniial exliibitions and favorably noticed. Among his 
historical portraits may be mentioned those of Chief Justice 
Shaw, President Walker, Charles Francis Adams, Minister 
to England, and John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachu- 
setts. 

In 1804 the honorary degree of Master of Arts was 
conferred on him by Harvard College, and in 1868, on the 
petition of a number of his' classmates, he received his 
degree of A. B., restoring him to his standing in the Class* 

April, 1869. 



82 



HENRY AUGUSTIN JOHNSON. 

HENRY AUGUSTIN JOHNSON, son of Jolin and 
Harriet (Bates) Johnson, was born in Fairhaven, 
Massachusetts, February 17, 1825. 

His father was born near Skien, in Norway, but visiting 
the United States early in life, he became so much attached 
to this country that he adopted it as his own. When 
naturalized, his Norwegian name was translated into that 
of John Johnson, which he always afterward bore. His 
wife, to whom he was married in Fairhaven, October 9, 
1808, was the daugliter of Joseph and Deborah Bates. 

Henry A. Johnson's youth was spent in Fairhaven and 
the adjoining town of New Bedford. He was fitted for col- 
lege by Professor Henry W. Torrey, who was at the time 
studying law in New Bedford. 

The two years immediately after graduating he spent 
mainly in New Bedford, and the succeeding three and one 
half years in Cambridge as resident graduate and law 
student. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1848, 
and soon after went to Europe, being absent about two 
3^ears. On his return he began the practice of law in Bos- 
ton, which he still continues. 

January 10, 1859, he was married to Elizabeth Swift 
Hitch, daughter of Henry H. Hitch, of Pernambuco, Brazil, 
and Elizabeth Swift, of New Bedford. For some ten years 
subsequent to his marriage he resided in Jamaica Plain, 



HENRY AUGUSTIN JOHNSON. 83 

Massachusetts, and this present April, 1869, has removed 
with his family, now consisting of a wife and four children, 
to Braintree, Massachusetts, where he intends to reside 
permanently. 

April 14, 1869. 



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EOBEET YATES JONES. 

ROBERT YATES JONES, son of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth Yates (Prjor) Jones, was born in Petersburg, 
Virginia, December 22, 1822. 

He entered college as a Freshman, and graduated with 
the Class in 1844. 

He was married, September 4, 1844, to Elizabeth Amy 
Dupree Lunde. 

Some years since he was reported to be carrying on a 
plantation in Louisiana. According to later accounts, he is 
now living in Petersburg, Virginia, and has a plantation on 
the James River. 

May, 1869. 



85 



=^ROBERT LEMxMON. 

ROBERT LEMMOX was born, according to the entry 
made by himself in the Class-Book, in Baltimore, 
Maryland, on the 25th of September, 1825. His father was 
Richard Lemmon, of the firm of R. Lemmon & Co., and 
son of Joshua Lemmon, also a merchant of Baltimore. 
His mother's maiden name was Sarah Anne Stevenson ; 
she was daughter of William Stevenson, of Baltimore. 

He was educated and fitted for college, in company with 
his friend and future classmate, Richard M. Bradford, by 
M. R. McXally, Esq., of Baltimore, and entered college in 
1842, joining the Class in the second term of the Sopho- 
more year. 

After graduating he studied law in the office of the late 
Judge John Glenn, of Baltimore, and having been admitted 
to the bar, engaged in the practice of his profession in his 
native city. 

At the end of four years he gave up practice, to take 
charge of the Patuxent Iron Furnaces in Anne Arundel 
County, Maryland, in which his father was largely inter- 
ested, and of which, on the death of the latter (in 1851 
or 1852), he became the purchaser. On this property he 
built a handsome mansion, where he resided until his 
deatli, on the 24th of December, 1856, caused by severe 
cold and exposure while suffering from an attack of ery- 
sipelas. 

He married, in the autumn of 1854, Fannie C, daughter 
of Henry A. Hall, of West River, Maryland. They had two 
children, sons. 



86 



s 



SAMUEL PAEKEE LEWIS, 



AMUEL PARKEE LEWIS, son of James and 



Lewis, was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts, November 
16, 1824. 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, and 
graduated in 1844. 

In 1844 - 45 he was a student in the Dane Law School, 
and in 1845-46 and in 1846-47 his name is printed in 
the College Catalogues in the list of Resident Graduates. 
He subsequently practised law in Boston for a short time, 
and now resides in Pepperell. 

May, 1869. 



87 



GEOKGE HOMEE LORD, 

GEORGE HOMER LORD, son of Melvin and Susannah 
Ridgway (Homer) Lord, was born in Boston on the 
8th of May, 1825. Having gone through the usual ele- 
mentary course of instruction, he attended successively the 
private schools of F. P. Leverett, Giles and Gushing, and 
Gushing and Forbes. Prepared under these faithful teach- 
ers, besides receiving lessons in elocution of William Rus- 
sell and in French of Monsieur Bugard, he entered Harvard 
Gollege in 1840, and was graduated in 1841. He went to 
Europe the same year, and, returning in 1845, spent some 
time in a merchant's counting-room in New York. Relin- 
quishing this position and its object, he entered the Law 
School at Gambridge in 1848. In the same year his health 
failed him, and he was obliged to return to his home, re- 
maining to this day, unfortunately, an invalid. 

Had he retained his health there is every reason to be- 
lieve he would have been a useful member of society and 
an honor to his Glass. 

April 1, 1869. 



88 



CLELAND KINLOCH MIDDLETON. 

CLELAND KINLOCH MIDDLETON was born at 
Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, 
August 16, 1824, and is the eldest son and third child of 
Henry Augustus Middleton, Esq. (H. C. 1813), and Har- 
riott (Kinloch) Middleton, daughter of Cleland Kinloch, 
Esq., of Weehaw Plantation, Georgetown District, South 
Carolina. 

His early years were passed at his father's residence at 
Kensington, on the Great Pedee River, whence the family 
removed, each spring, to spend the summer months at 
Statesburg, in Sumter County. In 1830 his father pur- 
chased a house in Charleston, and made that city his resi- 
dence until 1837. During tliis period Middleton attended 
the school connected with the Charleston College, and was 
also under the instruction of Mr. Henry Burns. 

In the summer of 1837 he went to Pendleton, South 
Carolina, to reside with Mr. Francis Kinloch Huger. Here 
he attended a school kept by a gentleman named Wayland, 
and had an opportunity of seeing frequently Mr. Calhoun 
and Mr. Langdon Cheves, who resided in the neighbor- 
liood. 

In the autumn of 1837 he went to Philadelphia, where 
Mr. Espy was his teacher, and in 1838 he was placed with 
Mr. Anthony Bolmar, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, re- 
maining with him until within five months of his examina- 
tion for admission to Harvard College. These last five 
months he passed with the Rev. Horatio P. Stebbins, at 
Leominster, Massachusetts. 



CLELAND KINLOCH MIDDLETON. 89 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman in 
1840, and, with the exception of a period of rustication in 
his Sophomore year, remained with them during the whole 
course, and received his degree at Commencement. He 
did not attain a high rank for scholarship, and abandoned 
the study of the Classics at the beginning of the Junior 
year. His preferences were for the English branches, es- 
pecially for those taught by the late Professor Channing, 
whom he highly esteemed. 

After graduating he chose medicine as his profession, for 
which he fitted himself under the instruction of Dr. Samuel 
Henry Dickson, of Charleston, now Professor in the Medi- 
cal College, Philadelphia. He also attended two courses of 
lectures at the Charleston Medical College, and received the 
degree of M. D. 

He subsequently travelled in Europe, and also visited 
Egypt and Nubia. 

In 1852 he began to show symptoms of mental malady, 
and in 1854 he became an inmate of the McLean Asylum 
at Somerville, Massachusetts, where he still remains. 

He has ever been respected by those who have known 
him, as a brave, truthful, and honorable gentleman. 

October 14, 1868. 



90 



JAMES MORISON. 

JAMES MORISON, son of Nathaniel and Mary Ann 
(Hopkins) Morison, was born in Peterboro', New Hamp- 
shire, June 20, 1818. He was the youngest of seven chil- 
dren, — five sons and two daughters. Four of the sons 
are graduates of Harvard College. 

He is descended from John Morison, one of the first set- 
tlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who was in London- 
derry, Ireland, during the memorable siege of that city in 
1689, and who died in Peterboro', in 1776, at the age of 
ninety-eight years. 

His father, Nathaniel Morison, born in Peterboro', in 1779, 
was the son of Deacon Robert and Elisabeth (Holmes) 
Morison. He married, in 1804, Mary Ann, youngest 
daughter of John and Catherine (Reed) Hopkins, of Lon- 
donderry, New Hampshire, and died of yellow fever, in 
Natchez, Mississippi, in 1819. In early life he carried on the 
business of making and repairing carriages, at Fayetteville, 
North Carolina, but afterward returned to New Hampshire, 
where, in 1814, he engaged in the cotton manufacture. At 
the time of his death he was employed in the construction of 
works for the introduction of water into the city of Natchez. 

James Morison resided at Peterboro' until he was ten 
years of age, then passed four years on a farm in a neigh- 
boring town, and the three following years in a woollen 
manufactory. He then went to Phillips Academy, at Exe- 
ter, New Hampshire, to prepare for college, and entered 
Harvard in 1841, joining the Class at the beginning of the 
Sophomore year. 



JAMES MORISON. 91 

Immediately after graduating he began the study of 
medicine at Baltimore, where lie received the degree of 
M. D. from the University of Maryland, in 1846, and was 
appointed Resident Physician of the Baltimore Infirmary. 
Here he remained until the autumn of 1849, when he left 
for California, where he arrived in the spring of 1850, and 
established himself in the practice of his profession in San 
Francisco. In 1854 he went to Europe, where he remained 
until 1856, in attendance on the hospitals of Edinburgh, 
Glasgow, Dublin, London, and Paris. 

He was married, January 29, 1857, to Mary L. Sanford, 
daughter of Philo Sanford, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts, 
and returned to California, where his wife died, January 17, 
1866, leaving two children, a son and a daughter. 

June 16, 1868, he was married to Ellen Wheeler, daugh- 
ter of Sumner and Catherine (Vose) Wheeler, of Keene, 
New Hampsliire. 

In 1858 he was appointed Professor of the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine and Pathology in the University of 
the Pacific, — the first medical institution established on the 
Pacific coast, — and was chosen one of the trustees of the 
University. He was a member of the California State 
Medical Society, of which, in 1859, he was one of the Vice- 
Presidents. He was also a member of the San Francisco 
County Medical Society. 

He has contributed various articles to the Pacific Medical 
and Surgical Journal; also to the San Francisco Medical 
Press ; among others, — 

Report of a Case of Glanders in the Human Subject. 

On the use of Chlorate of Potassa in Typhoid Fever. 

On Conservative Surgery. 

May, 1869. 



SAMUEL BRADLEY NOYES. 

SAMUEL BRADLEY XOYES, eldest son of Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Morrill) Xoyes, was born at Dedham, Mas- 
sachusetts, April 9, 1817. 

His paternal ancestor, Nicholas Xoyes, came to New Eng- 
land from Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1634, and 
to Xewbury, Massachusetts, in 1635, with his brother. Rev. 
James Xoyes. Tradition asserts that the first settlers of 
Newbury came by water from Ipswich, and that Nicholas 
Noyes was the first person who leaped ashore. 

His maternal ancestor, Isaac Morrill, was admitted free- 
man at Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1632-33. The name has 
been variously spelled, • — Morell, Murrill, and Morrill ; 
the last form has always been used by the family. 

He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Massachusetts, where he was a pupil from the fall of 1836 
to the summer of 1840. 

He joined the Class in the second term of the Freshman 
year, in March, 1841, but remained only about two years 
and a half. "While in college he was leader of the College 
Choir and of the Harvard Glee Club. In the Sophomore 
year he was Poet to the I. 0. H. 

After leaving Cambridge he studied law with Hon. Isaac 
Davis of Worcester, and afterwards with Hon. Ezra Wil- 
kinson of Dedham, and Hon. Ellis Ame of Canton, Mas- 
sachusetts. He was admitted to the Norfolk Bar in April, 
1847, and began practice at Canton. 

He was justice of the peace in 1849, trial justice in 1850, 
commissioner of insolvency in 1853, special county commis- 



SAMUEL BRADLEY NOYES. 93 

sioner for Norfolk County in 1856, and again trial justice 
in 1857. In 1864 he was appointed special agent of the 
Treasur}^ Department and acting collector of customs at 
Fernandina, Florida. In 1866 he returned to Massachu- 
setts, and in May, 1867, was appointed United States 
Register in Bankruptcy for the Second Congressional Dis- 
trict of Massachusetts, which office he now holds. He is a 
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 
and of the New England Agricultural Society. 

He resides in Canton, where he has been since 1849, 
with the exception of two years, a member of the school 
committee, and was superintendent of the public schools in 
1857, 1858, 1861-64, 1867-69. 

He was married, January 16, 1850, by Rev. Robert P. 
Rogers, of the Class of 1844, then minister of the First Con- 
gregational Parish in Canton, to Georgiana, daughter of 
James and Abigail (Gookin) Beaumont, of Canton. 

Their children are : Therese Isabel, born August 9, 1851 ; 
Eliza Rosita, born June 22, 1857 ; Bradley Morrill, born 
December 26, 1864. 

In 1864 he received from the college his degree of A. B., 
restoring him to his standing in the Class. 

He has been a frequent contributor to the newspaper 
press in different parts of the country. 

May, 1869. 



94 



GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN. 

GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN, son of George (H. C. 
1809) and Eliza Agnes (McDonogh) Parkman, was 
born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 20, 1823. 

In 1837, having previously visited Europe, he became a 
pupil in the Boston Latin School, where he was fitted for 
college. He entered Harvard with the Class as a Fresh- 
man, and remained through the whole course. 

Immediately after graduating with the Class he entered 
the Dane Law School, and received the degree of LL. B. in 
1846. He completed his legal education in the office of 
Sidney Bartlett, Esq., in Boston, and was admitted to the 
bar in October, 1847, but has never practised. 

Soon after his admission to the bar he went again to 
Europe, where he remained only a few months. Since his 
return in 1850 he has resided in Boston and in Newport, 
Rhode Island, making a short visit to Cuba and the South- 
ern States in 1860. He is still unmarried. 

May, 1869. 



95 



FRANCIS PAEKMAN. 

FRAXCIS PARKMAN, son of Rev. Francis (H. C. 
1807) and Caroline (Hall) Parkman, was born in 
Boston, Massaehusetts, September 16, 1823. He first at- 
tended school in Medford, but was finally prepared for col- 
lege at the school kept in Boston by Gideon F. Thayer, and 
entered Harvard College with the Class as a Freshman. 
In the Senior year he made a Toyage to Europe, and spent 
nine months in travelling in Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, 
France, England, and Scotland. During a portion of the 
time his classmate, William Morris Hunt, was his com- 
panion in a journey among the Apennines. He returned 
to Cambridge before Commencement, and graduated with 
the Class in 1844. 

After graduating he entered the Dane Law School, and, 
in 1846, received the degree of LL. B., but never engaged 
in the practice of the law. In the spring of 1846 he set out 
with a relative on a journey to the Rocky Mountains, " with 
a view of studying the manners and character of Indians in 
their primitive state." On his return he published, in the 
Knickerbocker Magazine, a narrative of this journey. One 
of the results of this expedition, however, was a perma- 
nently impaired state of health, which still, after a lapse of 
more than twenty years, deprives him of the full use of his 
eyesight, and renders close and long-continued application 
impossible. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
ciety, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 
American Antiquarian Society, the Xew York Historical 



96 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

Society, and various other societies. He is also an over- 
seer of Harvard College and one of the trustees of the 
Boston Athenaeum. 

He married, May 13, 1850, Catherine ScoUay, daughter 
of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, of Boston ; she died September 4, 
1858. Their children were : Grace, born in 1851 ; Fran- 
cis, born in 1851, died 1857 ; and Catherine, born 1858. 

After his marriage he went to live at Brookline, Massa- 
chusetts, and he has since resided there or in Jamaica Plain 
durhig the summers, passing the winters in Boston. He 
revisited Europe in 1858-^59, and again in 1868 — 69. 

Publications : — 

Frame and Rocky Mountain Life. One volume. 1849. 

History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the TTar of the 
North American Tribes against the English Colonies, after 
the Conquest of Canada. One volume, octavo. 1851. 

Franco and England in North America. Yol. I., Pio- 
nee^rs of France in the New World. 1865. 

The same. Yol. 11., The Jesuits in North America in 
the Seventeenth Century. 186T. 

Yolume HI. of the same series is now in preparation. It 
will be entitled, " The Discovery of the Gi^at West,^' and is 
to be followed by five or six other volumes. 

Yarious articles in reviews, etc. 

In addition to his literary occupations, he has given, of 
late, much attention ta horticulture. 

April, isaa. 



97 



JOSEPH PEABODY. 

JOSEPH PEABODY, son of Francis and Martha (Endi- 
cott) Peabody, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, Jan- 
uary 31, 1824. 

He was fitted for college at the public Latin School in 
Salem, under Master Oliver Carlton, — having previously 
made a short visit to Europe, — and entered Harvard Col- 
lege with the Class as a Freshman. 

After graduating with the Class he engaged in the study 
of chemistry, and was for some time the pupil of Dr. Charles 
T. Jackson, of Boston. He afterward went to Europe, 
where he continued his chemical studies for several years. 

On his return to this country he went into business in 
the city of New York, but is now engaged in manufacture 
ing in Salem, where he resides. 

He was married, October 23, 1866, to Anna Perkins^ 
daughter of the late Hon. David Pingree, of Salem. 

May, 1869. 



98 



HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY. 

HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY, son of Justus and Mary 
(Edwards) Perry, was born in Keene, New Hamp- 
shire, January 23, 1824. His father was a merchant ; his 
mother a native of Boston, Massachusetts. 

He pursued his preparatory studies in his native town 
and in Walpole, New Hampshire, and entered college with 
the Class as a Freshman. 

After graduating he studied law in the Dane Law 
School at Cambridge and in the office of William P. 
Wheeler, in his native town. In 1847, during the Mexican 
W^ar, having been offered a position as volunteer aide-de- 
camp on the staff of General Shields, he served in that 
capacity until the severe wound received by his command- 
ing officer at the battle of Cerro Gordo abruptly terminated 
his military career. After remaining in Mexico with the 
wounded general until the latter began slowly to recover, 
he returned with him to the United States. Soon after, 
when General Taylor became President, he sought an 
appointment as Consul at St. Thomas, on ae^jount of ill- 
health and inability to bear the severity of New England 
winters. He was offered, instead, the place of Secretary of 
Legation at Madrid, which he accepted (1849) with the 
intention of shortly returning to his own country to engage 
in the practice of law. Circumstances, however, occurred 
which have induced him to remain many years in Spain. 
During this time, with the exception of a period of five or 
six years between 1855 and 1861, he has constantly held, 
the position of Secretary of Legation, and in 1854, and also 



HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY. 99 

for nearly three years during the War of the Eebellion, 
performed the duties of Charge d' Affaires. 

While acting in that capacity in 1854 he satisfactorily 
settled the difficulties growing out of the affair of the Black 
Warrior, and thereby thwarted the attempt made by certain 
Southern politicians to involve the United States in a war 
with Spain for the purpose of robbing her of the island of 
Cuba. He also, at the same time, nearly concluded a treaty 
with Spain for reciprocal freedom of commerce between the 
United States and Cuba. The treaty failed, owing to the 
opposition made to it on the ground that, if it were con- 
cluded, there would no longer be any decent pretext for 
desiring the annexation of that island. 

In the interval between 1855 and 1861, not being em- 
ployed in the public service, he engaged in the business of 
telegraphic construction. He laid down four submarine 
telegraph cables in the Mediterranean Sea, built several 
land lines, and was in correspondence with various govern- 
ments in relation to the project known as the South Atlantic 
Telegraph. In 1859 he received from Spain a grant of the 
right of way for the lines of that project. 

On the breaking out of the late War of the Rebellion he 
was about to return home for the purpose of volunteering 
for the defence of Washington, when he received President 
Lincoln's credentials appointing him Secretary of Legation 
at Madrid and Charge d' Affaires ad interim. He took pos- 
session of the mission on the 5th of June, 1861, and at 
once procured from Spain a proclamation of neutrality, the 
most favorable obtained during the war from any foreign 
nation. In consequence of this proclamation, the Rebel 
cruiser Sumter, having put into Cadiz for repairs and sup- 
plies, was allowed to remain in that port only twenty-four 
hours, and was forced to take refuge at Gibraltar, where, 
blockaded by the American gunboats, she finished her 
career. 



100 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

The minister who was subsequently appointed, Mr. Carl 
Schurz, having returned home, after a residence of five 
months, to take a command in the army, and Mr. Koermer, 
who succeeded him, remaining in all only about a year 
in Madrid, Mr. Perry continued to act as Charge ad in- 
terim in the absence of his superiors, and until the arrival 
of a new minister, Mr. Hale, September 30, 1865. During 
this time the relations between the two governments were 
often of the most delicate nature ; Spain being offered at one 
time strong inducements to join with France in recognizing 
the Southern Confederacy, while at another, irritated by 
fancied insults to her flag by our blockading forces, she was 
disposed to declare war with the United States on her own 
account, sure of being seconded by France. 

In 1863, at the time of the French occupation of Mexico, 
the Spanish ambassador at Paris signed, under French 
influence, a joint convention granting a right of way to cer- 
tain foreign parties, who proposed to open direct communi- 
cation, by telegraph, between Europe and various countries 
of Central and South America. This would have been an 
infringement of the rights previously granted to Mr. Perry ; 
but it was also a proceeding highly prejudicial to Ameri- 
can interests, being expressly intended to promote schemes 
which it was then the constant effort of the American State 
Department to oppose. On public, therefore, rather than 
on private groimds, Mr. Perry felt it his duty to maintain, 
in a suit at law, his claim under the previous grant. The 
success of his suit prevented the ratification by the Spanish 
Government of the convention signed by its ambassador. 
When an American company subsequently applied to Spain 
for permission to connect the United States and Cuba by a 
telegraphic cable, Mr. Perry set aside his own claims, and 
heartily and successfully devoted himself to carrying out 
the wishes of his countrymen. 

He was married, on the 10th of April, 1852, to the Senorita 



HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY. 101 

Dona Carolina de Coronado, daughter of Don Nicolas Coro- 
nado, of Badajoz, Spain, — the first instance in that country 
of a mixed marriage, where one of the parties was a Catliolic 
and the other a Protestant. The Sefiora Dona Carolina 
Coronado de Perry is widely known in her own country 
as one of the first of Spanish lyric poets ; and the esteem 
in which she is held for her talents and many virtues has 
largely contributed to her husband's success as a diplo- 
matist. 

They have two daughters living. 

A successor to Mr. Perry, as Secretary of Legation at 
Madrid, has recently been appointed ; but the nommation 
has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. 

May, 1869. 



102 



WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT. 

WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT, son of William 
Hickling (H. C. 1814) and Susan (Amory) Pres- 
cott, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 1826. 

He entered college as a Freshman, and after graduathig 
with the Class entered the Dane Law School in 1845, and 
received the degree of LL. B. in 1847. He subsequently 
passed several years in Europe, and on his return engaged 
in business, from which he has since retired. 

He was married, November 6, 1851, to Augusta, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Augustus Peabody, of Salem. They have 
had four children : Edith, born April 20, 1853 ; William 
Hickling, born February 22, 1855 ; died October 12, 1865 ; 
Linzee, born November 27, 1859 ; Catherine Elizabeth, 
born February 19, 1863. 

May, 1869. 



103 



EOBEKT POSSAC ROGERS. 

ROBERT POSSAC ROGERS, son of Robert (H. C. 
1802) and Mary (Channing) Rogers, was born in 
Boston, Massachusetts, on the 29th of August, 1824. 

His father was the son of Abner Rogers, a New Hamp- 
shire farmer, living at Hampstead, and a lineal descendant, 
it is said, of the famous John, of Smithfield. He was a 
little older than most of his Class. For some years after 
graduation he was a teacher and tutor, and then entered 
upon mercantile pursuits, going to Europe in the way of 
business, and spending several years there, chiefly at Mar 
seilles. When nearly fifty he returned to Boston, where 
he married and lived until his death in 1839, at the age 
of sixty-four. His wife was the daughter of William and 
Lucy (Ellery) Channing, of Newport, Rhode Island, and 
granddaughter of William Ellery, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island. She sur- 
vived him about four years, dying in 1843. Mr. Rogers 
was highly respected by his classmates and friends as a man 
of sterling integrity and scholarly tastes, — goiiig by the title 
of " Aristides the Just," among those who knew him best. 
These few details respecting him are here put down by his 
son, who is not aware that in any college record there is an 
account of one whose name and character he would not 
have altogether forgotten in the annals of Harvard. 

The early youth of Robert P. Rogers was one of much 
trial, owing to a delicacy of constitution that would not 
permit him to bear the rough life of other boys or to 
compete with them in their studies. He was never but 



104 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

once seriously ill, though always unable to go beyond a 
certain medium point of play and work. Indeed, as he 
looks back, it is a mystery to him how he acquired any 
available knowledge. His schooling was of the most des- 
ultory kind, seldom for more than two or three weeks 
together, and then a long interval of feebleness and country 
air. His love of books, however, and his home life led him 
into all sorts of reading, and his acquaintance with the best 
English authors began at an early day, while his father, 
who was an excellent scholar, kept him instructed more or 
less in Latin and Greek, and sent him to the best schools, 
among them the Boston Latin School for two years. The 
last summer of his school life was spent at Hummer Acad- 
emy, Byfield, under that most excellent teacher and estima- 
ble man, Mr. Nehemiah Cleaveland., Thence, at sixteen 
years of age, in the summer of 1840, he went to Cambridge, 
entering college with the Class of 1844 as a Freshman. 

After two years his health failed, and he was obliged, at 
the close of the second Sophomore term, to give up study. 
A few months at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, passed in 
working and loitering in the fields, not establishing a cure, 
he was induced to try a sea-voyage, — the last thing he 
had ever expected or wished to do. Friends procured him 
a berth as supercargo's clerk, and he sailed in October, 
1842, on board a vessel bound to Rio Janeiro. There he 
spent the winter, and returned home in much better con- 
dition the next spring. 

But he was neither in spirits nor circumstances to return 
to college. His mother died that fall, leaving him quite 
alone. His first move was to take a room at Divinity Hall, 
as a mere resident. There, with his books about him, he 
worked at his education in his own way, quite by himself ; 
more of a recluse for three years, he is happy to say, than 
he has ever been since. In 1846 he entered the Divinity 
School, and formed pleasant friendships, and saw the way 



ROBERT POSSAC ROGERS. 105 

apparently open to a useful life. Graduating in 1849, his 
first settlement as a minister was in the winter of 1850, 
at Canton, Massachusetts, where he remained nearly three 
years. He was afterward installed, in the summer of 1854, 
over the First Parish in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where 
he has lived fifteen years. 

Before going to Gloucester to take up his abode he was 
married, September 27, 1854, to Elizabeth Murray Revere, 
daugliter of Joseph W. Revere, of Boston. Five children 
have been born to them, one of whom, a boy, died in in- 
fancy. The survivors are two boys and two girls, the eld- 
est now (1869) thirteen years old. 

His life has not been an eventful one, or, in any way that 
can be written here, remarkable. He has loved general 
literature, but never turned it to much account, except 
for his own household good. Writing has been a pleasant 
occupation, and he has had enough of it in sermonizing. 
Tlie same delicacy of constitution from which he suffered 
in youth has kept him back from more than ordinary efforts. 
Still he trusts that his quiet course may not be altogether 
without interest to the Class of '44, at whose request he 
prepares this sketch, and to whom he is indebted for various 
kindnesses, and among whom he is most happy to have his 
name enrolled as their " one parson " ; but not the only 
one, he trusts, to call down blessings on their heads. 

January, 1869. 



106 



LEYERETT SALTONSTALL. 

L EVERETT SALTONSTALL, son of Hon. Leverett 
(H. C. 1802) and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Salton- 
stall, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 16, 1825. 

He is eiglith in descent from Sir Richard Saltonstall, of 
Huntwick, England, Knight, an associate of the Massachu- 
setts Bay Company, and one of the patentees, who removed 
with his children to New England, and commenced the set- 
tlement of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630, but after- 
ward returned to England, where he died about 1658. Five 
generations of the ancestors of Leverett Saltonstall have 
graduated at Harvard College : Nathaniel, grandson of Sir 
Richard, graduated in 1659 ; Richard, son of Nathaniel, 
in 1695 ; Richard, son of Richard, in 1722 ; Nathaniel, his 
son, in 1766, and Leverett, son of Nathaniel and father of 
Leverett, in 1802. The family name is derived from 
" Saltonstall," a small town in the parish of Halifax, York- 
shire, England, where grants of land were made to members 
of the family at a very early period. 

His father, Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, son of Nathaniel 
(H. C. 1766) and Anna (White) Saltonstall, was an emi- 
nent advocate. Speaker of the House, and President of the 
Senate in the Massachusetts Legislature, a Representative 
in the Congress of the United States ; President of the 
Bible Society, of the Essex Agricultural Society, and of the 
Essex Bar ; A. A. and S. H. S., LL. D. Harvard University, 
1838, member of the Board of Overseers, and always the 
earnest friend of the college. He died May 8, 1845. 

Leverett Saltonstall was fitted for college at the Salem 



LEVERETT SALTONSTALL. 107 

Latin School, and entered Harvard with the Class as a 
Freshman, remaining through the entire course. 

After graduating, he entered the Dane Law School, in 
1845, where he remained two years, and in 1847 received 
the degree of LL. B. Li the summer of the same year 
he went to Europe, remaining abroad until the autumn 
of 1849. Upon his return he entered the office of Sohier 
and Welch, in Boston, where lie completed his legal studies. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and practised his pro- 
fession for several years in Boston, but has now abandoned 
it. 

He was married, October 19, 1854, to Rose, daughter of 
John Clarke and Harriet (Eose) Lee, of Salem. His chil- 
dren are : Leverett, born November 3, 1855 ; died Febru- 
ary 14, 1863 ; Richard Middlecott, born October 27, 1859 ; 
Rose Lee, born June 17, 1861 ; Mary Elizabeth, born Oc- 
tober 17, 1862 ; a son, born May 4, 1867. 

He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
and of the State Board of Agriculture. He resides at 
Chestnut Hill, Newton, but has an office in Boston. 

May, 1869. 



108 



FREDERICK ADOLPHUS SAWYER. 

FREDERICK ADOLPHUS SAWYER, born December 
12, 1822, at Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 
was the son of Joseph Sawyer, of the same town, and Abi- 
gail Bender, his wife. Abigail Bender was the daugliter 
of a German, Peter Bender, who came to America about a 
century since, and settled in -Marlborough, Massachusetts, 
where he married Abigail Brigham. Joseph Sawyer was a 
country merchant and farmer, a man of high character and 
fair education. He held responsible local offices, and was 
several times a member of the State Legislature. His an- 
cestors came to Massachusetts from Lincolnshire, England, 
in 1638. 

Frederick A. Sawyer resided in Bolton, attending the 
public schools when in session, and occasionally spending a 
term at a private school kept by one Thomas Fry, a most 
excellent teacher, and a Quaker. He also attended school 
at the academy in Westminster, Massachusetts, and at Marl- 
borougli, Massachusetts ; at the latter place his teacher 
was the late Hon. 0. W. Albee, who served his town and 
county in both branches of the Legislature. 

He entered college in 1840. His life in college was much 
like that of most poor boys ; he received assistance from 
various sources, performing the duties of monitor, and 
teaching school in the winter vacations. He held a re- 
spectable rank as a scholar. 

After leaving college he engaged in the business of teacli- 
iiig, and continued it till September, 183i, as follows : — 

In Gardiner, Maine, from August, 1841, to March, 1847. 



FREDERICK ADOLPHUS SAWYER. 109 

In Wiscasset, Maine, from March, 1847, till June, 1851. 
In Lowell, Massachusetts, from September, 1851, to June, 
1852. In Xashua, Xew Hampshire, from August, 1852, till 
near January, 1853. From January, 1853, till September, 
1855, in Wakefield (then South Reading), ^Massachusetts. 
From September, 1855, till April, 1859, in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts. From April, 1859, till September, 1861, in 
Charleston, South Carolina. 

His success as a teacher during the twenty years of his 
experience, was such as to lead him to hope for the highest 
rewards of the profession had he continued in it. 

While residing in Wiscasset, Maine, he lost his voice, 
and from June, 184T, till 1854, was more or less afflicted in 
consequence. For more than two years he did not speak a 
loud word ; yet he continued his labors as a teacher, and 
ultimately his Tocal powers were completely restored. 

While a resident of Charleston he maintained without \ 

taint his character as a loyal citizen. His profession saved \ 

him from military duty till some time in 1863, when he was \ 

arrested in his lecture-room by a military guard, and en- '\ 

rolled in a regiment for home defence, in which he was 
compelled to serve some weeks. The regiment never saw 
any active duty, however. 

He left Charleston, South. Carolina, under a flag of truce, 
on the 23d September, 1864, and returned thither on the 
22d of February, 1865. On the 30th May, 1865, he was 
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second 
District of South Carolina, and held this position till July 
22, 1868, on which date he took his seat in the Senate of 
the United States, as Senator from South Carolina for the 
term ending March 3, 1873, to which position he was 
elected on the 16th of July, 1868. 

In Xovember, 1867, he was elected a delegate from the \ 

city of Charleston to the convention called for the purpose I 

of framing a Constitution for the State of South Carolina ; 



110 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

but subsequent events prevented his becoming a participant 
in the work of that body. 

In 1854 he married Miss Delia E. Gay, daughter of the 
late Ira Gay, Esq., agent of the Nashua Manufacturing 
Company, and Mary White Gay, of Nashua, New Hamp- 
shire. He has two daughters, Myra Louisa, born July 22, 
1856, and Clara Cooper, born October 3, 1857, and one son, 
George Carpenter, born September 2, 1860. The latter 
was afflicted with deafness, in consequence of measles, in 
1861, and has never recovered the sense of hearing. He is 
at present, December, 1868, an inmate of the Clarke Insti- 
tute for Deaf Mutes, at Northampton, Massachusetts, where 
he is rapidly acquiring the art of articulation. 

F. A. Sawyer's present address is Charleston, South Car- 
olina, except during the sessions of Congress, when it is 
Washington, District of Columbia, 

December 12, 1868. 



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^FRANCIS WILLARD SAYLES. 

FRANCIS WILLARD SAYLES, son of Willard and 
Maria (Francoeur) Sayles was born in Boston, Mas- 
sachusetts, September 30, 1823. 

He was fitted for college at the Boston public Latin 
School, where he became a pupil in 1834. He entered 
Harvard College with the Class as a Freshman, and re- 
mained through the whole course. 

Immediately after graduating he went into business as a 
merchant, and at the time of his death was a member of 
the firm of Sayles, Merriam, and Brewer, in Boston. 

He was married July 15, 1846. 

He died May 6, 1853, of injuries received in the memor- 
able accident which occurred on that day on the Xew York 
and New Haven Railroad, at Norwalk, Connecticut, as he 
was on his return from a journey to the South. 

May, 18G9. 



112 



PHILIP HOWES SEAES. 

PHILIP HOWES SEARS was born in Brewster, Massa- 
chusetts, December 30, 1819. 
He is tlie son of John Sears and Mercie Howes, and is 
descended in the seventh generation from Richard Sears, 
the Pilgrim, who landed at Plymouth, May 30, 1630, and 
settled about the year 1643 at a place called by the Indians 
Sursuit, lying then in the eastern precinct of Yarmouth, 
now in the towns of Dennis and Brewster, where he pur- 
chased from the Indians and from the widow of Governor 
Bradford a farm of about four hundred acres of land. This 
farm, enlarged by Paul Sears, the son of Richard, to nearly 
a thousand acres, but diminished by subdivision in the suc- 
ceeding generation to about three hundred acres, has, with 
the original homestead, come down through the several 
generations of his ancestors to the subject of this memoir. 
His ancestors of the same surname have always carried on 
this farm, and have otherwise been engaged in public 
affairs of town, county, colony, and State, in various mili- 
tary commissions, and in the management of trusts. His 
grandfather, Edward Sears, was also extensively interested 
in shipping ; and his father invested a large part of his 
capital in the manufacture of salt, which, though doing 
well at first, subsequently proved a failure and loss. 
Among his Pilgrim ancestors in maternal lines are Gov- 
ernor Prince (Governor of Plymouth Colony), Elder Brews- 
ter (of the Mayflower company). Constant Southworth 
(treasurer of Plymouth Colony), Rev. John Mayo (min- 
ister of Eastham and of the Second Church of Boston), 



PHILIP HOWES SEARS. 113 

Colonel William Bassett (colonial judge), Thomas Howes 
(one of the three original proprietors of the township of 
Yarmouth). His ancestors in England are given in Ed- 
mund H. Sears's "Pictures of the Olden Time," in Sir 
Bernard Burke's " Vicissitudes of Families " (title " The 
Pilgrim Father"), and in Somerby's Collections in Eng- 
land. 

Having studied in the academies of Orleans, Yarmouth, 
and East Dennis, at the last of which he began the study 
of Latin, he entered Phillips Academy, Andover, in April, 
1837, and continued there under the tuition of the princi- 
pal, Samuel H. Taylor, LL. D., until July, 1840, when his 
fitting for college was completed. While in college he made 
journeys for recreation and health each summer (to Niagara, 
White Mountains, Catskill, Trenton Falls, <fec.), a practice to 
which he has since sacredly adhered. 

After graduating he was engaged in teaching about two 
years, and studied law in the offices of Hon. Charles G. 
Loring, of Boston, and Josiah Putter, Esq., of Waltham, 
and for a year and a half (three terms) in the Dane Law 
School, taking his degree of LL. B. at the Commence- 
ment of 1849. While in the Law School he was tutor of 
mathematics to the Freshman and Sophomore Classes in the 
college. He was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Judi- 
cial Court of Massachusetts, in the County of Middlesex, 
in November, 1849, and immediately formed a partnership 
with Josiah Putter, Esq., of Waltham, in which it w^as 
agreed that he should attend to the trial of cases in court. 
He then began the practice of the law in the County of 
Middlesex, and entered at once upon the trial of cases, the 
first case argued by him in the Supreme Judicial Court 
being that of Farwell v. Pogers, 4 Cash. P., p. 460. 

In April, 1850, he went to Europe, travelling with his 
classmate, Johnson, visiting England, Scotland, France, 
Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Greece, and 



114 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

returnmg in April, 1851, when he resumed practice at Wai- 
tham in connection with Mr. Riitter. In October or Novem- 
ber of the same year he removed to Boston, and formed a 
partnership with Henry A. Scudder, Esq., which continued 
two years, and in November, 1853, he opened a separate 
office in Boston, and has since continued the practice of 
his profession in the County of Suffolk, with some practice 
in other counties, especially Barnstable. After the experi- 
ence of a few years he found that the trial of cases in court 
was too hard work for his health, as well as too hard work 
for the pay usually given, and endeavored to turn his prac- 
tice in a different direction. He has now for some years 
been chiefly employed as legal adviser and counsel to sev- 
eral corporations and trusts. As the practice of law in 
Massachusetts goes, he has been financially successful. 
His personal tastes have been toward studies and inquiries 
of a different kind, which have always occupied a considera- 
ble portion of his time and attention. 

In 1858 he again went to Europe for about six months, 
spending the larger part of the time in England, where, 
through certain letters of introduction, he had favorable 
opportunities for seeing the English people, and also visit- 
ing rapidly Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. 
He was elected in 1858 a member of the City Council of 
Boston ; in 1859 one of the Trustees of the Public Library 
of Boston, and also, the same year, a member of the Board 
of Overseers of Harvard College for the six years follow- 
ing ; in 1860 and 1861 was member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives of Massachusetts from the Sixth Ward of Boston. 
r He was married, April 23, 1861, in Boston, to Sarah Pratt 
Lyman, daughter of George W. and Anne (Pratt) Lyman, 
and has three children, two daughters and one son, named 
respectively, Annie Lyman, Mary Pratt, and Richard. 

The only productions of his that have been published, 
beside legal arguments and reviews, and arguments be- 



PHILIP HOWES SEARS. 115 

fore Committees of the Legislature, and some magazine 
articles, are a report to the Board of Overseers of Har- 
vard College on the Stiidv of Intellectual and Moral 
Philosophy in College ; a speech in the same Board against 
the confirmation of Thomas Hill as President of the Col- 
lege, and an address on Classical Studies, delivered at 
Andover, February 7, 1866, before the Alumni of Phillips 
Academy, at the dedication of the new Academic Hall. 

He resides in Boston during the winter, and in Waltham 
during the summer. 

May 21, 1869. 



lU 



EDMUND QUINCY SEWALL. 

EDMUND QUINCY SEWALL was bom in the city of 
New York, July 1, 1826. 

His father, Henry Devereux Sewall, was born in Marble- 
head, Massachusetts, August 21, 1786, and died in Waters 
town. New York, June 8, 1846. 

His mother, Mary Catherine (Norton) Sewall, was born 
in Goshen, Connecticut, June 4, 1796, and died in Water- 
town, New York, December 30, 1840. 

He entered Harvard College with the class as a Fresh- 
man, going through the whole course. 

Soon after graduating he sailed for Europe, where he 
remained two years, mostly at Heidelberg, Germany, at- 
tending lectures in the Jurisprudence Department of the 
University at that place. 

In 1846 he returned home, studied law, was admitted to 
the bar in 1850, and practised for three years. He then 
abandoned the profession, and went into the business of 
manufacturing steam-engines and machinery, in which he 
is still engaged at Watertown, New York. 

He was married, June 28, 1866, at Monroe, Michigan, to 
Kate C. Smith, daughter of the late Major Henry Smith, 
United States Army, and Elvira (Foster) Smith. 

They have one child, a daughter, born June 14, 1867. 

April 29, 186 Sw 



117 



DANIEL DENISON SLADE. 

DANIEL DENISON SLADE, son of J. Tilton and 
Elisabeth (Rogers) Slade, was born in Boston, Mas- 
sachusetts, May 10, 1823. He was fitted for college at the 
public Latin School, Boston. 

After graduating he studied medicine in Boston, in the 
Tremont Medical School, passed one year as House Surgeon 
in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and travelled and 
studied in Europe from 1849 to 1852. He has since prac- 
tised his profession in Boston, but is now engaged in 
agricultural and literary pursuits. He resides at Chestnut 
Hill, Newton, Massachusetts. 

He was married. May 27, 1856, to Mina Louise, daughter 
of Conrad and Lisette Hensler. 

April 30, 1869. 



118 



FAYETTE SMITH. 

FAYETTE SMITH, son of Preserved and Trypliena W. 
(Goldsbury) Smith, was born at Warwick, Massa- 
chusetts, August 1, 1824. 

His father was settled in 1814 as the third Christian 
minister over the parish of Warwick, where he remained 
until the year 1845. He was a lineal descendant of the 
Eev. Henry Smith, who came to this country in 1637, and 
was settled as pastor of the church at Wethersfield, Con- 
necticut. The mother of Fayette Smith was a native of 
Warwick, and died while he was quite young. 

Until entering college in 1840 he spent the greater part 
of his life at home, working on a small farm in the sum- 
mer, attending the public schools, and studying Latin and 
Greek under the instruction of his father. He also attended 
Deerfield Academy about a year. Such were all the oppor- 
tunities he had to prepare himself for college. 

When he graduated in 1844, he went to Greenfield, 
Massachusetts, and entered the law office of Grennell and 
Aiken, where he stayed one year, and then went to Cam- 
bridge and entered the Law School in the fall of 1845. 
He was there but a few weeks, as he was poor, and could 
not afford the expense. He then went into the office of 
Hon. Peleg Sprague, then United States District Judge 
for Massacluisetts, where he remained until the spring of 
1846. In May of that year he went to Cabotville (now 
Chicopee), Massachusetts, and entered the law office of 
John Wells, Esq., now one of the judges of the Supreme 
Court. He continued with him till the spring of 1848, 
when he was admitted to the bar, and established himself as 



FAYETTE SMITH. 119 

a lawyer in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The proprietors of 
that place were then beginning to improve the water-power 
at Hadley Falls, and laying the foundation for a large 
manufacturing city. In Holyoke he had some practice, 
but became dissatisfied, and in the summer of 1852 he set 
out for the West, with no definite destination. Being well 
acquainted with Mr. Hartwell, of the Class, who was then 
residing at Cincinnati, he went to that place. 

In October, 1852, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio, 
and in the spring of 1853 began to practise law in Cin- 
cinnati. Since September, 1854, he has been in partner- 
ship with Timothy D. Lincoln and James Warnock, under 
the firm of Lincoln, Smith, and Warnock. 

In 1859 he was married to Apollina Stone, daughter of 
Daniel and Augusta M. Stone. They have four children 
living, three boys and one girl. 

His life has been very monotonous. Since he has been 
in Cincinnati he has seen much hard work, but so far has 
succeeded in comfortably supporting himself and family. 

One word as to his name. He was christened Fayette 
Smith ; but before going to college was called Lafayette, 
and his name is so printed in the College Catalogue. Soon 
after leaving college he dropped the first syllable, and has 
since subscribed himself Fayette Smith. 

May 4, 1869. 



120 



=^JOSEPH BROWN SMITH. 

JOSEPH BROWN SMITH, son of Leonard and Sarah 
(Brown) Smith, was born m Dover, New Hampshire, 
March 14, 1823. 

At birth his sight was perfect, but before a week had 
passed a disease fastened upon his eyes which rendered him 
totally and incurably blind. When he was three years old 
his father died, and his mother removed to Portsmouth, 
New Hampshire, where he lived for six years. He w^as sent 
to school when four years of age, and was fortunate in 
having a most excellent teacher, who encouraged and skil- 
fully directed his strong natural love of knowledge. He 
was also a pupil in the Sunday school of the South Church 
in Portsmouth. 

When he was nine years old he was sent to the Perkins 
Institution for the Blind, in Boston, where, having a quick 
apprehension and a capacious and retentive memory, he 
learned so rapidly and well, that his friends determined to 
try the experiment of sending him to college. Dr. Samuel 
G. Howe, the superintendent of the institution entered 
warmly into the plan, if he did not first suggest it, and 
besides a general supervision gave much personal attention 
to liis preparatory education. 

He entered Harvard College with the Class, as a Fresh- 
man, and remained through the whole college course, 
acquitting himself creditably in the various studies. He 
graduated with the Class, receiving his degree at Com- 
mencement, and was said to be the first totally blind 
man who ever graduated at any college in this country. 



JOSEPH BROWN SMITH. 121 

Wliile in college, as well as previously, lie gave much of 
liis time to tlie study and practice of music, for which he 
had an entliusiastic love, as well as a decided natural tal 
ent, and of whose principles he had early acquired a 
thorough scientific knowledge. He is said to have com- 
posed a march when only nine years old ; and shortly 
before entering college he wrote an overture, which was 
performed by the Boston Academy of Music. In college 
he always had a piano in his room ; he was usually the 
organist at the College Chapel, and was a member of the 
Harvard Glee Club and of the College Choir. 

In September, 1844, immediately after graduating, he 
went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Music in the Kentucky Institution for the Blind. 
This position, for wliich he was admirably qualified, and 
whose duties he performed most acceptably, he held until 
his death, a period of fourteen years, giving at the same 
time instruction in music to private pupils. 

He was married, August 9, 1846, to Elizabeth Jane Cone, 
who died June 14, 1851 ; and afterwards, July 26, 1853, 
to Sarah J. Nash. He had two sons, — tlie elder, the child 
of the first marriage, named Joseph Haydn, the younger, 
born of the second marriage, Bryce Patten, both of whom 
with his widow, who is also blind, survive him. The elder 
has been brought up by his paternal grandmother in Dover, 
New Hampshire, and is a printer. The younger, now in his 
fifteenth year, resides with his mother in Louisville. 

He died at Louisville, May 6, 1859, aged thirty-six years, 
after a long and painful illness, which he bore patiently and 
cheerfully. In a sermon preached soon after his death, 
from which many facts in this narrative have been borrowed, 
his pastor and friend. Rev. J. H. Heywood, of Louisville, 
pays the highest tribute to his sincere faith as a Christian, 
and his noble qualities as a man. " It was his aim," he 
says, " to maintain himself in manly independence, and to 



122 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

inspire the blind with the idea of the possibility of self- 
support. To this aim he was true, and he succeeded in it." 
He occasionally wrote verses ; and an " Ode to the BUnd," 
of which he was the author, was thought worthy of being 
printed in raised letters for the use of the pupils in the 
Perkins Institution. 

May, 1869. 



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CHARLES HENRY BOYLSTON SNOW. 

« 

i^HARLES HENRY BOYLSTON SNOW, son of Peter 
^^-^ S. and Abigail (Chase) Snow, was born at Fitchbiirg, 
Massachusetts, August 7, 1822, and was fitted for college at 
Exeter, New Hampshire. \ 

After graduating he spent two yeai-s at tlie Dane Law > 

School, and one year in an office, was admitted to the bar, 
and has since practised his profession in Fitchburg. 

In January, 1858, he was married to Eliza Secrest, of 
South Carolina. 

They have had four children, of whom the eldest, a boy, 
died in August, 1862, aged two years and six months. 



April 29, 1869. 



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=^JOSHUA CLAPP STONE. 

JOSHUA CLAPP STONE, son of the late Henry B. and 
Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, August 28, 1825. His fatlier was for many years 
cashier and president of the Suffolk Bank in that city. 

He resided in Boston until 1838, and was for several 
years a pupil in the school kept by Mr. T. B. Hayward ; he 
then went to the academy at Leicester, Massachusetts, to 
prepare for college, and in 1840 entered Harvard with the 
Class as a Freshman. 

He did not seem ambitious of rank in college ; but 
his classmates recognized in him the ability to attain it, 
while he won their hearts by his quiet and engaging man- 
ners, his high sense of honor, his hearty sympathy, and his 
unvarying good-nature. 

Immediately after graduating he entered the Dane Law 
Scliool, and, in 1846, the law ofiice of the late ColonelJ. H. 
AV. Page, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he com- 
pleted his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar of 
•Bristol County in 1849, and was at once associated in prac- 
tice with Colonel Page. 

He married, September 17, 1850, Elisabeth Hathaway, 
daugliter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, of New Bed- 
ford, where his widow, with four sons and a daughter, is 
now living. 

In 1853 he formed a partnership with Judge Brigham, 
which continued until the latter was appointed to the 
bench. In the spring of 1859 Mr. Stone removed with his 
family to Boston, where he remained in the practice of his 



JOSHUA CLAPP STONE. 125 

profession until the spring of 1862, when he returned to 
New Bedford and became a partner with William W. 
Crapo, Esq. Tliis connection continued until his death. 

He was for several years Commissioner of Insolvency ; 
and when the office of Judge of Insolvency was created, 
was appointed to that position for Bristol County, holding 
it until the office was merged in that of Judge of Probate. 
In the years 1866 and 1867 he was a Representative from 
the Eleventh Bristol District in the Massachusetts Legisla- 
ture. 

He died in New Bedford on the 2d of January, 1869. 

The obituary notice, of which the following is a part, ap- 
peared in the New Bedford Mercury a few days after his 
death : — 

" This is a simple record ; but the death of the subject of it is a 
grave and serious loss to our city ; not only a loss to the profession 
which he adorned, and to the friends who warmly admired and 
loved him, but to the entire community, upon which such a man, 
high-minded, honorable, truthful, and courageous, exercises an un- 
conscious, but most beneficial and elevating influence. 

" In his profession he had already achieved an enviable reputa- 
tion, as a sound lawyer, a persuasive, convincing advocate, and a 
thoroughly honorable practitioner. No man, it seems to us, could 
have a juster sense of the gravity and dignity of the profession, a 
more full appreciation of the oath he had taken as a minister of the 
law, or a more conscientious and resolute determination to regard 
its solemn sanction. He was ever fair, open, and manly in his 
practice ; slow to take advantage of an adversary's mistake or neg- 
lect, and indignant at the least showing of trickery or even disin- 
genuousness. We know the esteem in which he was held by the 
judges of the highest court of the State, the respect they entertained 
for his ability, the confidence they had in his professional integrity 
and honor, and the pleasure they took in listening to his neat and 
finished legal arguments. His death is the extinguishment of one 
of the lights of the profession in this county, — a light that was daily 
growing in effulgence; for he worked to the last. In his sick- 



126 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

chamber were his law books, and when stricken down he was at 
work upon an important law argument. 

" Death has robbed us of more than the promising, growing, 
ripening lawyer. As a legislator. Judge Stone won marked dis- 
tinction. His graceful oratory, his choice language, his musical 
periods, gave him power in the House, — power to command and 
compel attention. But these alone did not give him the influence 
which he exerted and the popularity which he enjoyed. His great 
power was in his integrity, his honesty and sincerity. The House 
trusted in him as legislators once trusted in Fisher Ames and 
Roger Sherman ; members })ut faith in his words because they had 
faith in the man. In all parts of the State men were looking to 
Mr. Stone as one competent to the duties and worthy the honor of 
its liighest station ; and in his death a career of extended public 
distinction and usefulness has been lost." 

Mav, 18G9. 



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WARREN TILTON. 

WMRREX TILTOX was born in Newburjport, Mas- 
sachusetts, August 4, 1824, and is the son ©f 
Stephen and Priscilla H. (Brown) Tilton. He was fitted 
for college at the Latin School in Boston, and entered with 
the Class as a Freshman. 

After graduation he studied law with Hubbard and Watts, 
of Boston, and also at the Dane Law School in Cambridge. 

He was married in Georgetown, D. C, January 28„ 
1851, to Sarah A. Ould, daughter of Robert and PauUna 
(Gayther) Ould. 

He practises law in Boston and resides in Beverly, Mas- 
sachusetts. 

He has been a member of both branches of the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature. 

Tiie only trial of great public notoriety in which he has 
been engaged was the defence of Frank W. Rounds for 
the murder of Adolph Prager, his employer, in Washing- 
ton Street, Boston, at noonday. 

April 13, 1869. 



128 



JAMES PARKER TREADWELL. 

JAMES PARKER TREADWELL entered college with 
the Class as a Freshman. His name disappears from the 
Catalogue in the Senior year, nor does it occur in the list of 
graduates at Commencement. It reappears, however, in the 
Triennial Catalogue, from which it is also learned that he 
has received the degree of Master of Arts. He made no 
entry in the Class-Book. 

He is one of the contributors to the Class Fund, and the 
Class Secretary has recently received from him, by mail, 
from San Francisco, California, his photograph for the Class 
album. 

He has resided for many years in San Francisco, and is 
reported to have acquired a large property there. 

May, 186 9. 



129 



GEORGE WALKER. 

C-^ EORGE WALKER, son of John and Hannah (Wood) 
T Walker, was born in Burlington, Massachusetts, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1820. 

His father, the son of John Walker, of Burlington, was 
a farmer in humble circumstances. His mother was the 
daughter of John Wood, also of Burlington, where several 
branches of the family are now living. 

Until he was four years old he lived in his native town. 
His father then removing to Lovell, Oxford County, in the 
State of Maine, he lived with him there until 1839. He 
then went to Cambridge to reside with his father's brother, 
Professor James Walker, by wdiom he was fitted for college. 
He entered Harvard as an L^niversity student in 1840, and 
in the following year joined the Class of 1844, with which 
he graduated. 

His chief difficulty in getting an education was the want 
of money. With assistance, howevei', from Professor Walker^ 
and from the beneficiary fund of the college, together with 
what he earned by school-teaching, he was able to complete 
his college course. 

After graduating he took charge of the Portland Acad- 
emy, at Portland, Maine, and at the same time entered his 
name as a student of law in the office of Howard and She}> 
ley, resigning, however, the situation of principal in the 
academy in March, 1846. In December of the same year 
he was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County, and 
formed a partnership for the practice of law with Jeremiah 
Bradbury, under the form of Bradbuiy and Walker, in 
Calais, Maine. 



130 THE CLASS OF J 844. 

In 1848 he removed to Machias, Maine, where he has 
since resided in the constant practice of his profession. He 
has also been engaged, to some extent and with some suc- 
cess, in land specnlations, lumbering, and navigation. 

In politics he has always been allied with the Democratic 
party, but has never sought political honors. He was, how- 
ever, chosen Treasurer of the County of Washington in 
1855, and in 1862 was elected to the Senate of Maine ; but 
Jiis election being contested, on technical grounds, he was 
obliged to yield his seat. 

In 1867 he was elected to the Maine House of Represent- 
atives by an indisputable majority, and during the session 
made several speeches relating both to matters of public 
and of private legislation. 

He was married in May, 1851, to Henrietta Jones Cliace, 
daughter of Hon. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Pope) O'Brien. 
They have had six cliildren, three of whom are now living. 

His wife's father was a Representative in the Congress of 
the United States from the State of Maine during the four 
terms, or eight years, immediately following its separation 
from Massachusetts. Her mother was born in Charleston, 
South Carolina, but came to Massachusetts in early life, and 
previous to her marriage was a school-teacher in Roxbury. 

April 2.3, 1868« 



131 



STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND. 

STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND, eldest son of 
Ricliard Goodhue (H. C. 1818) and Maiy B. (Rich- 
ardson) Wheatland, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, 
August 11, 1824. 

His father was the second son of Captain Richard Wheat- 
land, of Salem, Massachusetts ; his mother was the daugh- 
ter of John Richardson, Esq., of Newton. 

His early life was passed in Salem, where he was fitted 
for college at the public Latin School, under Master Oliver 
Carlton. He entered Harvard with the Class as a Fresh- 
man, and remained through tlie whole college course. 

After graduating he studied and practised law in Salem, 
of wliicli city he has been several times elected mayor. He 
was also for one year (1862) a member of the House of 
Representatives in the Massachusetts Legislature. 

He resides in Salem, and is still unmarried. 

May, 1869. 



132 



EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT. 

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, eldest son of Lot and 
Sarali (Blanchard) Wheelwright, was born in Boston, 
Massachusetts, March 10, 1824. 

His father was the son of Lot and Susannah (Wilson) 
Wheelwright, of Boston, and grandson of John Wheel- 
wright, of Cohasset. His mother is the daughter of the late 
Edward and Mary (Cunningham) Blanchard, of Boston, 
and granddaughter of Edward and Sarah (Lowell) Blanch- 
ard. 

His preparatory education was chiefly acquired at the 
private school kept in Boston by Mr. T. B. Hayward (H. C. 
1820), to whose admirable system of instruction he owes, 
in a great measure, the respectable rank he was able to 
take in college. He remained at this school seven or eight 
years ; but the year previous to his going to Cambridge he 
passed under the instruction of Mr. Charles K. Dillaway. 

He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, and re- 
mained through the whole course. The most notable event 
of his college life was his election to the office of Class Sec- 
retary. 

In November, 1844, shortly after graduating, he sailed 
from Boston in the ship Robin Hood, bound for Valparaiso. 
He went as a passenger, and had no object in view other 
than the voyage itself. The ship having met with disaster 
off the mouth of the Rio La Plata, put into Montevideo for 
repairs, which detained her there a fortnight ; after which 
she proceeded on her voyage, and arrived at Valparaiso 
after a passage from Boston of one hundred and fifteen 
days. 



EDWAKD WHEELWRIGHT. 133 

He remained six months on tlic west coast of South 
America, spending some time in Santiago, tlie capital bf 
Chili, and in Lima, the chief city of Peru ; visited all the 
principal ports between Valparaiso and Callao, and returned 
liome, as he had come, in a sailing vessel, by way of Cape 
Horn. He arrived in Boston in November, 1845, after a 
j^ear's absence. 

Soon after liis return he entered his name as a student 
in the Dane Law School, where he remained one year, and 
then entered the office of Sohier and Welch, in Boston, 
wliere he completed the prescribed term of legal study. 
He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County on the 17th 
of April, 1849, but has never practised. 

In the autumn of 1849 he went to Europe, where he 
remained tliree years, — spending the winter of 1849 - 50 
in Paris, and afterward travelling in Spain, Switzerland, 
Italy, and France, and visiting England during the great 
Exliibition of 1851. He was in Paris at the time of tlie 
coup cTetat^ December 2, 1851, and was an eyewitness of 
some of the principal features of that event. 

In September, 1855, he went again to Europe, for the 
purpose of seeing the Great Exhibition of that year in Paris, 
and remained hi that city and its neighborhood until his 
return home in July, 1856, after less than a year's absence. 

Since his last visit to Europe he lias resided chiefly in 
Boston, in the house in which he was born, and which has 
always been his home. During the last two years the ex- 
traordinary duties imposed upon him as Class Secretary, 
which lie has cheerfully accepted, and endeavored to the 
best of his ability to perform, have given him an agreeable 
and tolerably engrossing employment. 

He is still unmarried. 

May, 1869. 



134 



HENRY BLATCHFORD WHEELWRIGHT. 

HENRY BLATCHFORD WHEELWRIGHT, son of 
Eben and Sarah (Boddily) Wheelwright, was born 
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 22, 1824. 

He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and 
entered Harvard with the Class as a Freshman. He was 
absent during a considerable portion of the college course, 
on account of ill-health, but graduated with the Class, re- 
ceiving his degree in the following, year. 

After graduating he taught school for a while, being for 
one year, 1844-45, usher in the Boston public Latin 
School. In 1846 he entered the Medical School of Harvard 
University. 

He was married. May 15, 1850, to Abbie S. Hodges, of 
Taunton, Massachusetts. 

For several years he was Commissioner of Alien Passen- 
gers and Foreign Paupers, and afterward General Agent of 
the Board of State Charities for the State of Massachusetts, 
which office he has recently resigned on account of ill- 
heal tli. 

He now resides at Taunton, Massachusetts. 

May, 1869. 



135 



^CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB. 

CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, son of John and 
Lydia (Hartwell) Wliitcomb, was born in Hancock, 
New Hampshire, January 21, 1823. 

He entered college as a Freshman, and graduated with 
the Class in 1844. He held a high rank for scholarship, 
and took part in two of the College Exhibitions ; while at 
Commencement the part assigned him was the Latin Salu- 
tatory Oration. According to the printed Order of Exercises 
for Commencement, he had attained high distinction in 
mathematics, Latin, and philosophy, and a rank above the 
average in rhetoric and hi-story. 

After graduating he went with his classmate, Sears, in 
November or December, 1844, to the South, where he 
remained during the winter and spring, chiefly in Louisville, 
Kentucky. In the following summer he returned, with 
somewhat impaired health, to his home in Han-cock, New 
Hampshire, where he remained the greater part of the time 
for several years, seeking to re-establish his health, study- 
ing, however, for a term or two at the Dane Law School in 
1846-47. In August, 1849, h-e returned to the Law 
School and remained until April, 1850. On the 4th of 
May following, in company with his brother, Adolphus 
Carter Whitcomb (H. C. 1847), he left New York for Cali- 
fornia, via Chagres, and arrived at San Francisco June 20, 
1850. There he was admitted to the bar, and after a few 
Aveeks began the practice of the law with his brother, being 
also subsequently associated with Hon. A. Ten Eyck, United 
States Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands- 



VSb THE CLASS OF 1844. 

At the great fire which occurred in San Francisco on the 
night of May 8, 1851, he was so badly burned in escaping 
from the building of Welles and Company, where he had his 
office, as to be confined to his bed. At first he was not sup- 
posed to be in any danger, but his constitution, for a long 
time impaired, was unable to withstand the terrible shock 
it had received, and it was soon found that, although his 
burns were healing, he was daily growing weaker. He 
lingered until May 20, 1851, when he died without a strug- 
gle and apparently without pain. His regular physician 
during his sickness was his classmate, Dr. Morison. He was 
temporarily buried in the cemetery of Yerba Buena, pre- 
vious to the removal of his remains to their final resting- 
place, by the side of those of his family in Hancock, New 
Hampshire. His age was twenty-eight years. He died 
unmarried. 

At a meeting of the Class, shortly after his death, Messrs. 
Hale and Tilton were appointed a committee to draft a 
letter, to be sent to the friends of Mr. Whitcomb, expressive 
of the sympathy of the Class and their respect for the char- 
acter of the deceased. The letter was as follows : — 

To John AYhitcomb, Esq., Hancock, New Hampshire. 

Dear Sir, — At a meeting of the Class of 1844, held at the 
office of R Codman, Secretary of the Class pro tern., in Boston, on 
the IGth of August, 1851, the undersigned were directed in behalf 
of the Class to express to you and the remainder of your family 
the sincere sympathy felt by them for the recent loss, under cir- 
cumstances so peculiarly painful, of our classmate, Charles A. 
"Whitcomb. 

Our intimate connection with your son had enabled us thor- 
oughly to appreciate and esteem his many excellent qualities of 
heart and intellect, and to understand how painful is the afflic- 
tion which those united to him by the ties of blood have been 
called upon to suffer. We have felt, too, how great must have been 
the value of a person of his character in a community like that of 



CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB. 137 

which he had recently become a member, and how great the im- 
portance, in a new State, of his elevated purposes, unshaken integ- 
rity, cool judgment, and fixed religious principle, while we know 
that his friends must equally have esteemed those milder virtues 
which irradiate the retirement of home. 

(Siorned) George S. Hale, ) ^ 

^ ° ^ ,„ „ ; Committee. 

Warren Iilton, \ 



138 



EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD. 

EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, son of Charles (H. C. 
1814, M. D. 1818) and S«^i'' (Rhodes) Wild, was 
born in Brookline, Massachusetts, November 25, 1825. 

He entered Harvard College with the Class as a Fresh- 
man, and after graduating; studied medicine with his father, 
and also in tlie Medical School of Harvard University and 
in Philadelphia, where, in 1846, he received his medical 
degree from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He subse- 
quently attended medical lectures in Paris. 

He was married, June 12, 1855, to Frances Ellen, 
daughter of John W. Sullivan. 

During the Crimean War he went again to Europe, and 
served as Medical Officer in the Turkish army, receiving, at 
the end of the war, a medal from the Turkish Government 
in recognition of the value of his services. 

On his return home he practised his profession for several 
years in Brookline, where, on the breaking out of the Re- 
bellion in 1861, he recruited a company, which was one of 
the first that enlisted for the war. His company was incor- 
porated in the First Regiment Massachusetts Yolunteers, 
and he was commissioned as its Captain May 22, 1861. He 
served as Captain in that regiment at the first battle of Bull 
Run and in the Peninsular Campaign under General Mc- 
Clellan. At the second battle of Fair Oaks he was severely 
wounded in the right hand. He came home disabled ; but 
before his wound was healed was commissioned as Major, 
and soon after as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-Second 
Massachusetts Volunteers, and was appointed to the com- 



EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD. 139 

maud of Camp Stanton, near Lynn, Massachusetts. The 
Thirty-Fifth Regiment was then recruiting there, and on 
the 11th of August, 1862, he was commissioned as its 
Colonel. The regiment left the State on the 22d of August 
with Colonel Wild at its head, with his arm in a sling, and 
in the first battle in which it was engaged, that of South 
Mountain, fought September 14, 1862, Colonel Wild was 
again severely wounded, losing his left arm at the shoulder- 

On the 23d of April, 1863, he was commissioned as 
Brigadier-General United States Volunteers, and after 
assisting in raising the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Mas- 
sacluiselts Regiments, composed of colored troops, he as- 
sumed command of the organization known as " Wild's 
African Brigade." He served under General Foster in 
North Carolina, and under General Butler in the Army of 
the James, and in May, 1865, was ordered to report for 
duty in Georgia under Brevet Major-General Saxton, As- 
sistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freed- 
men, and Abandoned Lands. Finally, by an order of the 
War Department, dated December 28, 1865, he, with one 
hundred and twenty-two other general officers, was honor- 
ably mustered out of the service of the United States. 

Soon after his discharge from the army. General Wild 
went to Austin, Nevada Territory, as Superintendent of the 
Diana Mine, and has since remained there, performing the 
duties of that position and practising his original profession 
of medicine. 

May, 1869. 



STATISTICS. 



STATISTICS OF THE CLASS. 



PROFESSIONS. 



Divinity. — For a long time the Class of 1844 bad in its ranks 
no representative of the clerical profession, and was the only Class 
that ever graduated at Harvard that was so distinguished. Since 
1867 it has one clergyman, Rev. Robert P. Rogers. 

Law. — Thirty-four members of the Class studied Law, — Baker, 
Baldwin, *Batchelder, Bradford, Brooks, *Cary, Clarke, Codman, 
*Davis, Farnsworth, *Fuller, Hale, Hartwell, Hoar, Johnson, 
*Lemraon, Lewis, Noyes, G. F. Parkman, F. Parkman, Perry, 
Prescott, Saltonstall, Sawyer, Sears, Sewall, F. Smith, Snow, 
*Stone, Tilton, Walker, Wheatland, E. Wheelwright, *Whitcomb. 

Of these seven have died; six, including two who died, went 
into business as merchants or manufacturers, as hereafter men- 
tioned : one of whom, *Davis, finally became an army officer ; 
two, Clarke and Perry, have held diplomatic employments; one, 
Hoar, is now a farmer, and one, F. Parkman, an author. 

Only eleven are now practising the profession : Baker, Brooks, 
Codman, Hale, Johnson, Noyes, Sears, F. Smith, Snow, Tilton, 
Walker. 

Medicine. — Nine members of the Class studied Medicine : 
*Crowell, Dalton, Faulkner, Francis, Middleton, Morison, Slade, 
H. B. Wheelwright, Wild. Of these one, Crowell, has died, and 
five only are now in the profession : Dalton, Faulkner, Francis, 
Morison, Slade, Wild. 

Mercantile Pursuits. — Fourteen members of the Class have 
been engaged in business : Baldwin, Bradford, *Davis, *Lemmon. 
Prescott, Sevvall, Blair, Chauncey, Dabney, Dwight, Lord, Pea- 



144 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

body, *Sayles, Tread well, of whom the first six had previously 
studied law. Five : Blair, Bradford, *Lemmon, Sewall, Peabody, 
have been or are engaged in manufacturing, and Dwight is treas- 
urer of a manufacturing company. Three have died, and only six 
are now engaged in active business : Blair, Dabney, Dwight, Pea- 
body, Sewall, Treadweli. 

Teachers. — Several of the Cla^^s have been temporarily em- 
ployed in teaching since graduation, as Gould, Hale, Harris, Hart- 
well, Hildreth, H. B. Wheelwright, but only four adopted it as a 
settled profession : Capen, * Hinds, Sawyer, *J. B. Smith (Music). 
Of these two have died, and only one, Capen, remains in the pro- 
fession. 

Planters. — Harris, Jones. 

Farmer. — Hoar. 

Author. — F. Parkman. 

Astronomer. — Gould. 

Artist. — Hunt. 

Army Officer. — *Davis, Brevet-Major U. S. A. 

Diplomatist. — Perry ; also, temporarily, Clarke. 



SERVED IN THE WAR AGAINST THE REBELLION. 

Brigadier-General. — Wild. 

Major. — Dabney. 

Surgeon. — Dalton. 

First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp. — *Davis. 

Aide-de-Camp without rank. — Hartwell. 

Privates. — Harris, * Hinds. 



MARRIAGES. 



Forty-two members of the Class have been married : Baker, 
*Batchelder, Brooks, Capen, Chauncey, Codman, Dabney, Dwight, 
Farnsworth, Faulkner, Francis, *Fuller, Gould, Greeley, Hale, 
Hartwell, Hoar, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, *Lemmon, Morison, Noyes, 



STATISTICS OF THE CLASS. 145 

F. Parkman, Peabody, Perry, Prescott, Rogers, Saltonstall, Sawyer, 
*Sayles, Sears, Sewall, Slade, F. Smith, *J. B. Smith, Snow, 
*Stone, Tilton, Walker, H. B. Wheelwright, Wild ; of whom five 
have been twice married : Brooks, *Fuller, Greeley, Morison, *J. 
B. Smith, and six have died. 



DEATHS. 



Twelve deaths have occurred in the Class, in the following 
order : — 

Gary, 1846 ; Crowell, 1847 ; Whitcomb, 1851 ; Hildreth, 1852; 
Sayles, 1853; Lemmon, 1856; Batchelder, 1858; J. B. Smith, 
1859; Hinds, 1862; Stone, 1869; Davis, 1869; Fuller, 1869. 



146 



THE CLASS FUND. 

THE first movement for the establishment of a Class Fund was 
made at an informal meeting of the Class held in Boston on 
the 22d February, 1853, but the plan finally agreed upon was 
adopted at a meeting at the Brattle House in Cambridge on Com- 
mencement Day, July 30, 1853. Its principal provisions are as 
follows : — 

PLAN FOR A CLASS FUND. 

The Class of 1844 being desirous to create a Fund for the 
purpose of assisting such of their members as may require assist- 
ance, of uniting themselves more closely, and strengthening their 
association as a Class with the College, propose to do it in the fol- 
lowing manner ; viz. : — 

Each member of the Class may contribute a sum not less than 
five dollars, and each so contributing shall bind himself to pay annu- 
ally the sum of three dollars.* 

Any member of the Class shall, at any future time, become a 
contributor by paying the sum of fifteen dollars, together with a 
sum equal to the amount of the annual payments of any one of the 
contributors from the time of the establishment of the Fund. 

A committee, consisting of two contributors, shall be chosen 
annually on Commencement Day, to hold the Fund in trust for the 
following purposes ; viz. to invest wiiatever money may be paid to 
them, according to the foregoing provisions, in the safest and most 
profitable manner, and also all interest which may accrue on the 
same, till the P^und shall amount to two thousand dollars ; after 
which they shall dispose of the interest of said Fund as the Class 
may, at their annual meeting on Commencement Day, direct, and 
at the succeeding annual meetings shall render an account of their 

* The annual assessment of three dollars was discontinued after two years. 



THE CLASS FUND. 147 

receipts, expenditures, and investments in a book or books to be 
kept for the purpose; being required to exercise no more than 
ordinary care and 2)rudence in the premises. 

The Fund shall, after the decease of the contributors, be given 
to Harvard College, the interest only to be appropriated by the 
President and Fellows thereof, after it has amounted by accu- 
mulation or otherwise to Ten Tliousand Dollars, to assisting in- 
digent students, a regard being had to their merits as scholars, and 
preference being given in all cases to the descendants of any mem- 
bers of the Class of 1844. 

At the same meeting L. Saltonstall and R. Codman were ap- 
pointed Receivers of the Fund until Trustees should be chosen, 
and were directed to open subscription lists, which was accord- 
ingly done. Saltonstall and Codman were subsequently chosen 
Trustees of the Fund, and, by virtue of successive re-elections, 
have since continued to act in that capacity. 

On the 1st of July, 1861, the Fund had reached the sum of Two 
Thousand Dollars, and, in accordance with one of the above cited 
provisions, "at a meeting of the Class, Commencement Day, 1861, 
at Stoughton Hall, No. 1, it was voted unanimously that the Trus- 
tees be authorized to expend so much of the income of the Fund as 
may be necessary for a collation, annually, and the balance to add 
to the Fund, or distribute among the famihes of indigent members 
of the Class." 

The invested capital of the Fund on the 25th May, 1869, was 
valued at about Two Thousand Five [lundi'ed Dollars. 



148 



THE CLASS ALBUM. 

AT a meeting of the Class at Cambridge on Commencement 
Day, 1867, a vote was passed directing the Secretary "to 
procure a photograph of each member of the Class, and to preserve 
the same in an album." 

The Secretary having obeyed his instructions, the result thus far 
is a collection of forty -four portraits as follows : — 

Baldwin, *Batchelder, Bradford, *Cary, Chauncey, Clarke, Cod- 
man, Dabney, Dalton, *Davis, Dvvight, Farnsworth, Faulkner, 
'^'Fuller, Gould, Greeley, Harris ^Hinds, Hunt, Johnson, *Lem- 
mon, Lord, Morison, G. F. Parkman, F. Parkman, Peabody, 
Perry, Prescott, Rogers, Saltonstall, Sawyer, *Sayles, Sewall, 
Slade, F. Smith, *J. B. Smith, Snow, *Stone, Tilton, Treadwell, 
Walker, Wheatland, E. Wheelwright, Wild. 

The album can be seen at all meetings of the Class, and at other 
feim^es on application to the Class Secretary, 



THE CLASS OF 1844 IN 1869, 



Fkom the Tkiennial Catalogue. 



1844, 



Georgius- Washington Baker 

Aaron-Carolus Baldwin, 1853 

*Franciscus-Lowell Batcliel- 
der, Mr., LL.B. 1848 

Thomas - S. Blair, Mr., 
S.P.A.S. 

Ricardus - Magruder Brad- 
ford, 1866 

Georgius - Merrick Brooks, 
LL.B, 1847 

Carol us - Jacobus Capen, 

1846, Mr. 
*Georgius-Blankern Gary 
Henricus-Carolus Chauncej, 

Mr. 
Jacobus - Gordon Clarke, 

LL.B. 1846 
Robertus Codman, Mr., 

LL.B. 1846 
*Judah Crowell * 

Carolus-Guilielmus Dabney 
Johannes-Call Dalton, M.D. 

1847, in Coll. Med. et 
Chirurg. Urb. Nov. Ebor. 
Physiol, et Anat. Micro- 
scop. Prof., M.M.S. et 
A.A.S. 

*Henricus-Tallraan Davis 
Edmundus Dwight 
Amos-Henricus Farnsworth, 
LL.B. 1846 



Georirius Faulkner, M.D. 

1847, M.M.S.S. 
Tappan-Eustis Francis, M.D. 

1847, M.M.S.S. 
*Ricardus-Fredericus Fuller *i869 
Beniamin - Apthorp Gould, 

Mr., Ph. D. Gotting. 1848, 

A. A. et S.P.A. et S R. 

Astron. Lond. et Soc. Reg. 

Scientt. Gott. Soc. 
Samuel-Sewall Greele 
Georgius-Silsbee Hale, S.H.S^ 
Johannes - Adams Harris, 

1866 
Shattuck Hartwell, Mr., 

LL.B. 1846, Tutor 
"^Horatius-NeL-on Hildreth *i852 
"^P^benezer-Pierce Hinds *1862 
Edvardus-Sherman Hoar 
Guilielmus-Morris Hunt, 1868, 

Mr. 1864 
Henricus-Augustinus John- 
son, Mr. 1848, LL.B. 

1848 
Robertus-Yates Jones 
"^ Robert us Lemmon nsse 

Samuel-Parker Lewis 
Georgius-Homer Lord 
Cleland-Kinloch Middleton, 

M.D. 
Jacobus Morison, Mr. 1864, 



150 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



M.D. Marise-Terrfe 1846, 
in Univ. Pacific. Med. 
Princ. et Prax. et Pathol. 
Prof. 
Samuel-Bradley Noyes. 1864 
Georgius - Franeiscus Park- 
man, LL.B. 1846 
Franciscus Parkman, LL.B. 

1846, S.H. et A.A.S. 
Joseph us Peabody 
Horatius-Justus Perry 
Guilielmus - Gardiner Pi-es- 

cott, LL.B. 1847 
Robertas- Possac Iioge7-s,lS67 
Leverett Saltonstall, Mr., 

LL.B. 1847, S.H.S. 
Fhkdkricus - Adolphcs 
Sawyp:r, in Congr. Re- 
rumpub. Feed. Senator 
*Franciscus-Willard Sayles *i85a 
Philip[)us-Ho\ves Sears, Mr., 
Tutor, LL.B. 1849 , 



Edmundus-Quincy Sewall 

Daniel-Denison Slade, M.D. 
1848, M.M.S.S. 

Lafayette Smith 

*Jo>ephus-Brown Smith 

Carolus - Henricus - Boylston 
Snow, LL.B. 1846 

*Josua-Clapp Stone 

Warren Tilton, LL.B. 1847 

Jacobus-Parker Treadwell 
Mr. 

Georgius Walker 

Stephan us- Goodhue Wheat- 
land 

Edvardus Wheelwright, j\Ir. 

Henricus-Blatchford Wheel- 
wright, 1845, Mr. 1848 

*Carol lis- Adams Whitcomb ■ 

Edvardus - Augustus Wild, 
Mr., M.D. JefF. Penn. 
1846, M.M.S.S. 



61 



MEMORIALS OF COLLEGE LIFE. 



1. The Class in each Undergraduate Year. 

2. Deturs. 

3. The Exhibitions. 

4. Commencement. 

5. College Societies. 

6. Class Officers. 

7. Senior's Class Song. 



THE CLASS AS UA'DERGRADUATES. 



[Reprinted from the College Catalogues. 



FRESHMEN 



NAMES. 

Baldwin, Aaron Charles, 
Ballard, George Leavitt, 
Batchelder, Francis Lowell, 
Beal, John Brooks, 
Bemis, Isaac Vose, 
Brooks, George Merrick, 
Brown, George Washington, 
Bullard, Henry Bass, 
Capen, Charles James, 
Cary, George Blankern, 
Codman, Eobert, 
Crowell, Judah, 
Dalton, John Call, 
Davis, Henry Tallman, 
Denton, William Pitt, 
Dix, William Giles, 
Emerson, George Samuel, 
Farns worth, Henry Amos, 
Faulkner, George, 
Francis, Tappan Eustis, 
Gilman, William Henderson, 
Glazier, Franklin, 
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 
Greele, Samuel Sewall, 
Hale, George Silsbee, 
Harris, John Adams, 
Hartwell, Josiali Shattuck, 
10 



840-41. 




residence. 


ROOMS. 


Boston, 


St. 19 


Boston, 


Mr. Brooks's 


Saco, Me. 


D. 2 


Scituate, 


H. 17 


Watertoivn, 


M. 32 


Concord, 


M. 32 


Charlestoivn, 


H. 22 


Neiv Orleans, La. 


Mrs. Dascomb's 


Boston, 


H'y7 


Boston, 


Mrs. Gurnev's 


Dorchester, 


St. 1 


East Dennis, 


Mrs. Ford's 


Lowell, 


D. 2 


Boston, 


Dr. Ware's, Jr. 


Boston, 


St. 18 


Cambridge, 


Mrs. Dix's 


Boston, 


H'y 18 


Groton, 


Mrs. Mann's 


Billerica, 


Mrs. Gardner's 


Boston, 


Mrs. Clarke's 


Boston, 


Dr. Ware's, Sen 


Halloicell, Me. 


H. 3 


Boston, 


H'y 9 


Boston, 


D. 3 


Keene, N. H. 


St. 20 


Roxhury, 


St. 4 


Littleton, 


St. 17 



154 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, 


Bolton, 


St. 2 


Howes, George, 


Salem, 


H. 5 


Hunt, William Morris, 


Boston, 


Mrs, Moore's 


Johnson, Henry Augustinus, 


Fairhaven, 


H. 14 


Jones, Robert Yates, 


Petersburg, Va. 


Mr. R. Torry's 


Leavitt, David, 


Boston, 


H. 32 


Lewis, Samuel Parker, 


Peppere/l, 


H. 3 


Lord, George Homer, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Gurney's 


Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, 


Charleston, S. C. 


Mrs. Howe's 


Parkraan, George Francis, 


Boston, 


Mr. R. Morse's 


Parkman, Francis, 


Boston, 


H'y9 


Peabody, Joseph, 


Salem, 


Mr. T. Stearns's 


Perry, Horatio Justus, 


Keene, N. H. 


Mr. T. Stearns's 


Prescott, William Gardiner, 


Boston, 


Miss Carter's 


Rogers, Richard Dennison, 


Salem , 


Mrs. Phipps's 


Rogers, Robert Possac, 


Cambridge, 


H'y 18 


Russell, Walter Hiram, 


West Cambridge, 


H. 14 


Saltonstall, Leverett, 


Salem, 


Dr. Wyman's 


Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, 


Bolton, 


St. 2 


Sayles, Francis Willard, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Metcalf's 


Sears, Philip Howes, 


East Dennis, 


Mrs. Ford's 


Sewall, Edmund Quincy, 


Watertown, N. Y. 


H. 31 


Slade, Daniel Denison, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Gurney's 


Smith, Lafayette, 


Warvnck, 


H. 19 


Smith, Joseph Brown, 


Boston, 


H'y 7 


Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 


Fitckburg, 


St. 20 


Stone, Joshua Clapp, 


Boston, 


M. 12 


Tilton, Warren, 


Boston, 


St. 3 


Treadwell, James Parker, 


Boston, 


H. 4 


Ward, William Skinner, 


Marietta, Ohio, 


Mr. Danforth's 


Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, 


Salem, 


Mr. T. Stearns's 


Wheelwright, Edward, 


Boston, 


Miss Carter's 


Wheelwright, Henry Blatchford, 


Boxlmry, 


St. 3 


Whitcomb, Charles Adams, 


Hancock, N. H. 


St. 17 


Wild, Edward Augustus, 


Brookline, 


St. 4 



155 



SOPHOMORES. 



1841-42. 



Arey, Charles, 
Baldwin, Aaron Charles, 
Ballard, George Leavitt, 
Batchelder, Francis Lowell, 
Bemis, Isaac Vose, 
Brooks, George Merrick, 
Brown, George Washington, 
Billiard, Henry Bass, 
Capen, Charles James, 
Gary, George Blankern, 
Clarke, James Gordon, 
Codman, Robert, 
Crowell, Judah, 
Dabney, Charles William, 
Dalton, John Call, 
Davis, Henry Tallman, 
Dix, William Giles, 
Dwight, Edmund, 
Farnsworth, Amos Henry, 
Faulkner, George, 
Francis, Tappan Eustis, 
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 
Greele, Samuel Sewall, 
Hale, George Silsbee, 
Hamilton, William Lowndes, 
Harris, John Adams, 
Hartwell, Josiah Shattuck, 
Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, 
Hoar, Edward Sherman, 
Howes, George, 
Johnson, Henry Augustinus, 
Jones, Robert Yates, 
Lewis, Samuel Parker, 



RESIDENCE. 

SoiUh Wellfleet, 
Boston, 
Boston, 
Saco, Me. 
Watertown, 
Concord, 
Charlestown, 
Neiv Orleans, La. 
Boston, 
Boston, 

Nashua, N. H. 
Dorchester, 
East Dennis, 
Azores, 
Lowell, 
Boston, 
Cambridge, 
Boston, 
Groton, 
Billerica, 
Boston, 
Boston, 
Boston, 
Keene, N. H. 
Charleston, S. C. 
Boxbury, 
Littleton, 
Bolton, 
Concord, 
Salem, 

New Bedford, 
Petersburg, Va. 
Pepperell, 



ROOMS. 

Mrs. Binney's 

St. 31 

Mr. Brooks's 

H. 30 

M. 15 

M. 15 

H. 22 

Mrs. Metcalf s 

H'y7 

H'y22 

Mrs. Pepper's 

Mr. E. P. Tucker's 

St. 22 

Mrs. Metcalf's 

H. 30 

H. 24 

Mrs. Dix's 

Mr. E. P. Tucker'! 

H. 14 

Mrs. Gardner's 

C. H. 6 

St. 32 

H. 14 

St. 14 

Mr. P. O'Connor's 

C. H.6 

St. .30 

St. 10 

Mrs. Howe's 

H'y 12 

Mrs. Gardner's 

Mr. R. Torry's 

C. H. 9 



15 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, 


Charleston, S. C. 


Mr. P. O'Connor's 


Morison, James, 


Peterhoro', N. H. 


M. 14 


Noyes, Samuel Bradley, 


Dedham, 


Mrs. Binney's 


Parkman, George Francis, 


Boston, 


H'y 22 


Parkman, Prancis, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Ayers's 


Peabody, Joseph, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Perry, Horatio Justus, 


Keene, N. H. 


Mr. T. Stearns's 


Prescott, William Gardiner, 


Boston, 


Miss Carter's 


Rogers, Robert Possac, 


Cambridge^ 


M. 8 


Rogers, Richard Dennison, 


Salem, 


Mrs. Phipps's 


Saltonstall, Leverett, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, 


Bolton, 


St. 10 


Sayles, Francis Willard, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Metcalf 's 


Sears, Philip Howes, 


East Dennis, 


St. 22 


Sewall, Edmund Quincy, 


Watertown, N. Y. 


H. 31 


Slade, Daniel Denisou, 


Boston, 


Mr. Sweetman's 


Smith, Lafayette, 


Warwick, 


H. 22 


Smith, Joseph Brown, 


Boston, 


St. 10 


Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 


Fitchhurg, 


St. 14 


Tilton, Warren, 


Boston, " 


H. 28 


Treadwell, James Parker, 


Ipswich, 


H. 6 


Ward, William Skinner, 


Marietta, Ohio, 


Mr. E. P. Tucker's 


Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Wheelwright, Edward, 


Boston, 


Miss Carter's 


Wheelwright, Henry Blatchford, 


Boston, 


H 28 


Whitcomb, Charles Adams, 


Hancock, N. H. 


St. 30 


Wild, Edward Augustus, 


Brookline, 


St. 32 


Frothingham, Edward, 


Boston, 


H'y 8 


Tower, James Monroe, 


Waterville, K Y. 


H'y 13 


Walker, George, 


Cambridge, 


Dr. Walker's 



157 



JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. 





1842-43. 




NAMES. 


RESIDENCE, 


EOOMS. 


Ballard, George Leavitt, 


Boston, 


Mr. Brooks's 


Batchelder, Francis Lowell, 


Saco, Me. 


St. 5 


Bemis, Isaac Vose, 


Watertown, 


M. 10 


Bradford, Richard Magruder, 


Baltimore, Md. 


Mrs. Dix's 


Brooks, George Merrick, 


Concord, 


M. 10 


Brown, George Washington, 


Charlestown, 


D. 7 


Bullard, Henry Bass, 


Neio Orleans, La. 


Mr. Saunders's 


Capen, Charles James, 


Boston, 


M. 13 


Gary, George Blankern, 


Boston, 


St. 6 


Chauncey, Henry Charles, 


Middletown, Ct, 


Mr, Davis's 


Clarke, James Gordon, 


Nashua, N. H. 


St. 11 


Codman, Robert, 


Dorchester, 


Mr. E. P. Tucker' 


Crowell, Judah, 


East Dennis, 


St. 8 


Dabney, Charles William, 


Fayal, Azores, 


Mr. Davis's 


Dalton, John Call, 


Lowell, 


St. 5 


Davis, Henry Tallman, 


Boston, 


H. 24 


Dix, William Giles, 


Cambridge, 


Mrs. Dix's 


Dwight, Edmund, 


Boston, 


H. 12 


Farnsworth, Amos Henry, 


Groton, 


H. 1.5 


Faulkner, George, 


Billerica, 


M. 31 


Francis, Tappan Eustis, 


Boston, 


C. H. 6 


Fuller, Richard Frederick, 


Cambridge, 


St. 13 


Gould, Benjamin Aprhorp, 


Boston, 


M. 22 


Greele, Samuel Sewall, 


Boston, 


H. 15 


Hale, George Silsbee, 


Keene, N. H. 


H. 27 


Harris, John Adams, 


Roxbury, 


St. 28 


Hartwell, Josiah Shattuck, 


Littleton, 


St. 29 


Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, 


Boston, 


St. 10 


Hoar, Edward Sherman, 


( oncord. 


M. 28 


Hunt, William Morris, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Dix's 


Johnson. Henry Augustinus, 


New Bedford, 


St. 31 


Jones, Robert Yates, 


Petprsburg, Va, 


IVIr. R. Torry's 


Leavitt, David, 


Boston, 


Mr-J. Schutte's 



158 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



Lemmon, Robert, 


Baltimore, Md. 


Mrs. Dix's 


Lewis, Samuel Parker, 


Pepperell, 


M. 7 


Lord, George Homer, 


Boston, 


H. 2.5 


Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, 


Charleston, S. C. 


Mr. R. Torry's 


Morison, James, 


Peterborough, N. H. 


M. 12 


Noyes, Samuel Bradley, 


Dedham, 


D. 13 


Parkman, George Francis, 


Boston, 


H. 22 


Parkman, Francis, 


Boston, 


M. 24 


Peabody, Joseph, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Perry, Horatio Justus, 


Keene, N. H. 


M. 26 


Prescott, William Gardiner, 


Boston, 


H. 11 


Saltonstall, Leverett, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, 


Bolton, 


H. 29 


Sayles, Francis Willard. 


Boston, 


Mr. Holden's 


Sears, Philip Howes, 


East Dennis, 


St. 8 


Sewall, Edmund Quincy, 


Walertown, N. Y. 


St. 1.5 


Slade, Daniel Dcnison, 


Boston, 


H. 26 


Smith, Lafayette, 


Warwick, 


H. 29 


Smith, Joseph Brown, 


Boston, 


St. 10 


Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 


F^itchburg, 


M. 11 


Stone, Joshua Clapp, 


Boston, 


H. 28 


Tilton, Warren, 


Boston, 


H. 28 


Treadwell, James Parker, 


Ipswich, 


H. 6 


Walker, George, 


Cambridge, 


H. 17 


Ward, William Skinner, 


Marietta, Ohio, 


Mr. E. P. Tucker's 


Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, 


Salem, 


Mr. W. Saunders's 


Wheelwright, Edward, 


Boston, 


Mrs. Dix's 


Whitcomb, Charles Adams, 


Hancock, N. H. 


St. 29 


Wild, Edward Augustus, 


Brookline, 


St. 28 



Denton, William Pitt, 



Boston, 



St. 18 



159 



SENIOR SOPHISTEES. 





1843-44. 




NAMES. 


RESIDENCE. 


ROOMS. 


Bnkcr, George Washington, 


Milicood, Pa. 


Brattle House 


Ballard, George Leavitr, 


Bofiton, 


H. 1.5 


Batcholder, Francis Lowell, 


Saco, Me. 


Mr, Batchelder's 


Bemis, Isaac Vose, 


Watertoivn, 


H'y 6 


Blair, Thomas S. 


Pittshiu-fjh, Penn. 


Mrs. Howe's 


Brooks, George Merrick, 


Concord, 


H'y 6 


Capen, Charles James, 


Boxton, 


H'y 17 


Gary, George Blankern, 


Boston, 


M.' 13 


(^hauncey, Henry Chai'les, 


yriddle.town, Ct. 


Mr. Davis's 


Clarke, James Gordon, 


Nashua, N. H. 


St. 11 


Codman, Robert, 


Dorchester, 


Mr. E. P. Tucker 


Crowell, Judah, 


Eaat Dennis, 


St. 8. 


Dabney, Cliarles William, 


Faijnl, Azores, 


Mr. Davis's 


Dalton, John Call, 


Lowed, 


Mr. Williams's 


Davis, Henry Tallman, 


Boston, 


H. 24 


Dwiglit, Edmund, 


Boston, 


H. 12 


Farnsworth, Amos Henry, 


Grofon, 


H'y 2.3 


Faulkner, George, 


Billi-rica, 


]\[. 31 


Francis, Tappan Eustis, 


Boston, 


Mr. Danforth's 


Fuller, Richard Frederick, 


Cambridge, 


St. 14 


Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 


Boston, 


M. 2.5 


Greele, Samuel Sewall, 


Boston, 


H'y 22 


Hale, Georo-e Silsbee, 


Keenp, N. II. 


M. 9 


Hart^yell, Josiah Shattuck, 


Littleton, 


H'y 24 


Hildreth, Horatio Xelson, 


Bo'ton, 


H'y 2 


Hinds, Ebenezer Pierce, 


Pdtston, Me. 


C. H. 12 


Hoar, Edward Sherman, 


Concord, 


H'y 13 


Hunt, William Morri-:, 


Boston, 


Mr. Davis's 


Johnson, Henry Augustinus, 


Ntrio Bedford, 


St. 31 


Jones, Robert Yates, 


Petersburg, Va 


H'y 12 


Lemmon, Robert, 


Baltimore, Md. 


i\Irs. Srhutte's 


Lewis, Samuel Parker, 


Peppered, 


H'y 22 


Lord, George Homer, 


Boston, 


H. 25 



160 



THE CLASS OF 1844. 



Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, 
Morison, James, 
Parkman, George Francis, 
Parkman, Francis, 
Peabody, Joseph, 
Perry, Horatio Justus, 
Prescott, "William Gardiner, 
Saltonstall, Leverett, 
Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, 
Sayles, Francis Willard, 
Sears, Philip Howes, 
Sewall, Edmund Quincy, 
Slade, Daniel Denison, 
Smith, Lafayette, 
Smith, Joseph Brown, 
Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 
Stone, Joshua Clapp, 
Til ton, Warren, 
Walker, George, 
Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, 
Wheelwright, Edward, 
Whitcomb, Charles Adams, 
Wild, Edward Augustus, 



Charleston, S. C. 


H'y 12 


Peterborough, N. H. 


H'y 17 


Boston, 


H. 22 


Boston, 


M.21 


Salem, 


Mr. Saunders' 


Keene, N. H. 


St. 25 


Boston, 


H. 11 


Salem, 


H'y 14 


Bolton, 


H. 29 


Boston, 


M. 7 


East Dennis, 


St. 8 


Watertown, N. Y. 


H'y 19 


Boston, 


H. 26 


Warwick, 


H. 29 


Boston, 


H'y 2 


Fitchhurg, 


M. 11 


Boston, 


H'y 21 


Boston, 


H'y 21 


Cambridge, 


St. 23 


Salem, 


H'y 14 


Boston, 


Mr. Saunders' 


Hancock, N. H. 


H'y 24 


BrookUne, 


H'y 19 



161 



DETURS 



The following members 
Sophomore year : — 

Bemis. 

Gary. 

Crowell. 

Dabney. 

Dix. 

Farns worth. 

Faulkner. 

Hale. 

Harris. 

Hartwell. 

Hildreth. 

Howes. 

Johnson. 

Jones. 

Parkman 1. 

Parkman 2. 

Peabody. 



of the Class received Deturs in the 

Perry. 

Prescott. 

R. D. Rogers. 

Saltonstall. 

Sawyer. 

Sayles. 

Sears. 

Sewall. 

Slade. 

J. B. Smith. 

Snow. 

Treadwell. 

Wheatland. 

E. Wheelwright. 

H. B. Wheelwright. 

Whitcomb. 

Wild. 



The above names are copied from the original list given to the 
President's Freshman, in the handwriting of President Quincy, and 
signed by him, — now in the possession of the Class Secretary. 



162 



THE EXHIBITIONS. 



(Only the parts assigned to members of the Class of 1844 are 
here given ; tiie others corresponding to the missing numbers were 
spoken by members of other classes.) 



ORDEE OF PERFORMANCES 

FOR EXHIBITION, 
Wednesday, July 13, 1842. 

2. An English Version. " The True Man of Letters." L'Abbe 

Thomas. Discours a I'Academie. 

GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 

3. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Le Mariage 

Force." Scene VI. 

JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. 
WARREN TILTON, Boston. 

5. A Greek Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Les Fourberies 

de Scapin." 

JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton 
HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, New Bedford. 

7. A Latin Version. Extract from " Burke's Vindication of Nat- 
ural Society." 

GEORGE HOWES, Salem. 

10. An English Version. " S[)eech of an Insurgent Plebeian." 
Machiavelli, Hist. Florence, L. III. 

ERANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 

12. A Greek Version. "Address of Brutus to the Romans," 
Altieri. Brutus, Act I., Scene 2. 

GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 



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ORDER OF PERFORMANCES 
FOR EXHIBITION, 

Tuesday, October 18, 1842. 

2. An Euglish Version. Extract from Cicero's Oration " Pro 

Sext. Roscio Amerino." 

WILLIAM GILES DIX, Cambridge. 

4. A Greek Version. " Extract from Daniel Webster's Oration at 

Plymouth." 

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 

6. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Scene du Deni- 

aise." 

JOHN CALL DALTON, Loicell 
HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. 

10. An English Version. " Speech of Henry, of Brederode, to the 
Conspirators." Bentivoglio. Delia Guerra di Fiandra. P. I., 

B. II. 

GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. 

1 2. A Greek Dialoojue. Extract from Moliere's " Le Mariaore 
Force." Act I. 

FREDERIC ADOLPHUS SAWYER, Bolton. 
EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, BrooUine. 

14. A Latin Version. " Johannis Q. Adams Orationis Pars." 

PHILIP HOWES SEARS, Dennis. 



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OKDER OF PERFOEMANCES 

FOR EXHIBITION, 
Tuesday, May 2, 1843. 

2. An English Version. Extract from the Eighth Satire of 

Boileau. 

HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY, Keene, N. H, 

3. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Les Fourberies 

de Scapin." 

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. 

CHARLES HENRY BOYLSTON SNOW, Fitchhurg. 

5. A Latin Ver.-ion. Extract from Macaulay's '' Lays of Ancient 

Rome." 

CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 

8. An P^nglish Version. Extract from the Eulogy upon Racine. 

By M. de Laharpe. 

EDMUND D WIGHT, Jk., Boston. 

10. A Greek Version. Extract from Edward Everett's Oration 

at Bloody Brook. " 'H tov ^Aixepimvov ^CK'nTTrov Ivxi" 

CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Jb., Fayal, Azores. 

11. A Greek Version. 

RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 

14. A Greek Version, Extract from Boeckh. ^^UepUXrjs^AOrivaios.'" 
BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 



165 



ORDEE OF PEEFORMANCES 

FOR EXHIBITION, 

Wednesday, July 12, 1843. 

1. A Latin Oration. " De Ingenio Americano." 

PHILIP HOWES SEARS, Dennis. 

3. A Disquisition. " The Gipsies." 

GEORGE HOMER LORD, Boston. 

5. A Disquisition. " National Monuments." 

EDMUXD QUINCY SEWALL, Watertown, N. Y. 

7. A Disquisition. " Modern Greece." 

JAMES GORDON CLARKE, Nashua, N. H. 

8. A Greek Oration. " 'o rav *A6r)vai(ov Arjfios." 

EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, Brookline. 

10. A Dissertation. "The Antiquary an Imaginative Man." 

GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. 

13. A Dissertation. " Is a Man in Advance of the Age fitted for 

his Age?" 

PRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 

14. An English Oration. " Political Intolerance." 

JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton. 



166 



ORDER OF PERFORMANCES ; 
FOR EXHIBITION, 
Tuesday, October 17, 1843. 

1. A Latin Oration. " Quern Locum Americani inter Gentes 

teneant." 

HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, Fairhaven. 

4. A Disquisition. " Peculiarities of American Scenery." 

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 

6. A Poem. " The Grecian Fleet at Aulis." 

CHARLES H. B. SNOW, Fitchburg. 

7. A Dissertation. " The Norman Conquest." 

GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 

9. A Disquisition. " Demosthenes's Vindication of his Political 

Course." 

ROBERT CODMAN, Dorchester. 

11. A Disquisition. "The British Association for the Advance- 

ment of Science." 

BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 

12. A Disquisition. " Shakspeare's Roman Characters." 

WARREN TILTON, Boston. 

14. A Dissertation. "English Estimates of German Philosophy." 

CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 

15. An English Oration. " Washino;ton Allston." 

GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 



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- ORDER OF PERFORMANCES 

FOR EXHIBITION, 

Tuesday, May 7, 1844. 

1 . A Latin Oration. " De Anglia Nova." 

HORA'JIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. 

4. A Disquisition. Milton's '' Comus." 

WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT, Boston. 

6. A Disquisition. "- Tlie Sentiment of Veneration." 

LEVEHETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. 

7. A Greek Oration. " ArjfxoaSeurjs 'Adrjva7osJ' 

RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 

8. A Disquisition. " Ancient Ti-ees in Towns." 

EDMUND DWIGHT, Boston. 

10. A Disquisition. " Plea of Insanity in Courts of Justice." 

FREDERIC ADOLPHUS SAWYER, Bolton. 

12. A Disquisition. "The Importance of Observatories to the 

Science of a Country." 

EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS, Pittston, Me. 

13. A Dissertation. " Marie Antoinette." 

CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Fayal, Azores. 

15. A Dissertation. " Party Spirit, as affecting the Credibility of 

Modern History." 

JOHN CALL D ALTON, Lowell. 

1 6. A Dissertation. " The Character of Prometheus, as drawn by 

^schylns." 

HENRY CHARLES CHAUNCEY, New York, N. Y. 

17. An English Oration. "The Conquest of Mexico." 

JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. 



COMMENCEMENT 



11 



Illustrissimo GEORGIO N. BEIGGS, Armigero, 

GUBERNATORI; 

Honoratissimo JQHANNI REED, Armigero, 

VICE- G UBERNA TORI; 

CONSILIAEIIS ET SENATORIBUS 

Reipublicse Massachusettensis ; 

C^TERISQUE UNIVERSITATIS HARVARDIAN^ CURATORIBUS 

Honorandis atque Reverendis ; 

Honorando JQSIJ^ QUINCY, Armigero, LL. D, 

PRMSIDI; 

Toti S E N A T U I Academieo ; 

Aliisque omnibus, qui in Rebus Universitatis administrandis versantur ; 
VENERANDIS ECCLESIARUM PASSIM PASTORIBUS; 

Universis denique, ubicunque terrarum, Humanitatis Cultoribus, Reique 
Publicse nostree literarisd Fautoribus ; 



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THE CLASS OF 1844. 



JUVENES IN ARTIBUS INITIATI, 



Georgius- Washington Baker 
Franciscus-Lowell Batchelder 
Thomas Blair 
Georgius-Merrick Brooks 
Carohis-Jacobus Capen 
Georgius-Blankern Gary 
Henricus-Carolus Chauncey 
Jacobus-Gordon Clarke 
Robertus Codman 
Judah Crowell 
Carolus-Gulielmus Dabney 
Johannes-Call Dalton 
Henricus-Tallman Davis 
Edmundus Dwight 
Amos-Henricus Farnsworth 
Georgius Faulkner 
Tappan-Eustis Francis 
RIcardus-Fredericus Fuller 
Benjamin- Apthorp Gould 
Samuel-Sewall Greele 
Georgius- Silsbee Hale 
Josias-Shattuck Hartwell 
Horatius-Nelson Hildreth 
Ebenezer-Pierce Hinds 
Edvardus-Sherman Hoar 
Henricus-Augustinus Johnson 
Eobertus-Yates Jones 



Robertus Lemmon 
Samuel-Parker Lewis 
Georgius-Homer Lord 
Cleland-Kinloch Middleton 
Jacobus Morison 
Georgius-Franciscus Parkman 
Franciscus Parkman 
Josephus Peabody 
Horatius-Justus Perry 
Gulielmus-Gardiner Prescott 
Leverett Saltonstall 
Frederlcus-Adolphus Sawyer 
Franciscus-Willard Sayles 
Philip-Howes Sears 
Edmundus-Quincy Sewall 
Daniel-Denison Slade 
Lafayette Smith 
Josephus-Brown Smith 
Carolus-Henricus-Boylston Snow 
Joshua- Clapp Stone 
Warren Tilton 
Georgius Walker 
Stephanus-Goodhue Wheatland 
Edvardus Wheelwright 
Henricus-Blatchford Wheelwright 
Carolus- Adams Whitcomb 
Edvardus- Augustus Wild 

HASGE EXERCITATIONES 

humillime dedicant. 



ORDER OF EXERCISES 

FOR 

COMMENCEMENT, 

XXVIir AUGUST, MDCCCXLIV. 



Exercises of Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. 

1. A Salutatory Oration in Latin. 

Mathematics, Latin, Philosophy. 
Rhetoric, History. 

CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 

2. A Disquisition. " The present Estimation of our Puritan 

Fathers." 

Latin. 

EDMUND QUINCY SEWALL, Watertoivn, N. Y. 

3. A Disquisition. " Homer, as a Painter of Manners." 

Greek. 

AMOS HENRY FARNSWORTH, Groton. 

4. A Disquisition. " The Influence of the Legal Profession in the 

United States." 
Political Economy. 
Philosophv. 

THOMAS S. BLAIR, Pittsburgh, Penn. 



lj^= A Part at Commencement is assigned to every Senior, who, for general 
scholarship, is placed in the first half of his class, or who has attained a certain 
rank in any Department of Study. 

The names of the Departments, in which a student has attained the required 
rank, are inserted in the Order of Performances with his name. 

High distinction in any Dejjartment is indicated by Italics. 



174 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

5. A Disquisition. " Respect for Custom and Habit in Social 

Changes." 

Physics. 

Rhetoric, History. 

HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY, Keene, N. H. 

MUSIC. 

6. An English Oration. " Leaving College " 
Greek, History. 

Latin, Political Economy. 

GEORGE ERANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 

7. A Disquisition. " The Influence of Political Economy upon 

Modern Legislation." 
Political Economy. 
Rhetoric, Philosophy. 

GEORGE FAULKNER, Billerica. 

8. A Disquisition. " Clarendon as a Statesman." 

Greek. 

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. 

9. A Dissertation. " The Dependence of Science on the Me- 

chanical Arts." 

Mathematics, Greek. 

EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS, Pittston, Me. 

10. A Disquisition. " Al fieri." 
Political Economy. 

Greek, Latin, Philosophy. 

WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT, Boston. 

MUSIC. 

1 1 . An English Oration. " The Queen and the Philosopher." 

Greeic, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy. 

GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 

12. A Disquisition. " The Magnetic Telegraph." 

Political Economy. 

Mathematics, Philosophy. 

LAFAYETTE SMITH, Warwick. 

13. A Greek Oration. " Ilept 'HpoSoVov rov laTopiKov." 

(jrT€€rC LcitlTl 

HENRY CHARLES CHAUNCEY, Middletoiun, Conn. 



ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR COMMENCEMENT. 175 

14. A Disquisition. " Romance in America." 

Historij. 

Rhetoric. 

FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 

lo. A Dissertation. "The Characters of the Inhabitants of the 

Mountainous Districts of Europe." 

Latin. 

CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Fayal, Azores. 

MUSIC. 

1 6. An English Oration. " The true Man of Action." 
Mathematics, Greek, Latin. 

Philosophy. 

EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, BrooUine. 

17. A Disquisition. " Milton's Areopagitica." 

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 

18. A Poem. " Little Nell, — Her last Night in London, — Her 

Flight,— Her Death." 
Greek. 
Latin. 

WARREN TILTON, Boston. 

19. A Latin Oration. " De Utilitate et Pretio Literarum Anti- 

quarum Studii." 
Greek, Political Economy. 
Latin. 

ROBERT CODMAN, Dorchester. 

20. A Disquisition. " Vathek and its Author." 

Rhetoi'ic. 

GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. 

MUSIC. 

21. An English Oration. " The Destiny of Literature." 

Mathematics, Latin, Physics, Political Economy. 

Rhetoric, Philosophy, History. 

JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. 

22. A Disquisition. " The Infinite in Mathematics." 
Mathematics, Physics. 

BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 

23. A Dissertation. " An Ancient and a Modern Battle-field." 

History. 

Rhetoric. 

FREDERICK ADOLPHUS SAWYEH, Bolton. 



176 THE CLASS OF 1844. 

24. A Disquisition. " Harvest Celebrations in different Coun- 

tries." 
Latin, Political Economy. 
Rhetoric, Philosophy. 

EDMUND DWIGHT, Boston. 

25. A Dissertation. " The Agamemnon of ^schylus." 
Greek, Latin. 

History. 

HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. 

MUSIC. 

26. An English Oration. " The Mission of America." 
Mathematics, Greek, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy. 
Historr. 

PHILIP HOWES SEARS, East Dennis. 

27. A Dissertation. " Quinctilian's Views of Education." 
Latin, Physics, Political Economy. 

Rhetoric. 

JOHN CALL DALTON, Lowell. 

28. An English Oration. " The Physical Sciences." 
Greek, Latin, Philosophy, Physics, Political Economy. 
Rhetoric. 

RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 

29. A Dissertation. " The Moors in Spain." 

Greek, Latin. 

Philosophy. 

HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, Neiv Bedford. 

MUSIC. 

30. An English Oration. " The Political Fortunes and Destinies 

of the Anglo-Saxon Race." 
Greek, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy, History. 

JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton. 



Habita in Comitiis Universitatis CANTABRIGI^, MASSACHUSETTENSIS, Die 

AUGUSTI XXVIII, 

Anno Salutis M DCCC XLIV, 

Rerumque Publicarum Fcederatarum AMERICyE Summ.*; Potestatis LXIX. 



CANTABRIGI.^ : 

TYPIS METCALF ET SOCIORUM 

ACADEMI.E TYPOGRAPHOKUM. 



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COLLEGE SOCIETIES. 



THE INSTITUTE OE 1770. 



Aaron Charles Baldwin. 
^P'rancis Lowell Batchelder. 
.John Brooks Beal. 
Richard Magruder Bradford. 
Charles James Capen. 

* George Blankern Cary, Pres. 
Robert Codman. 

.John Call Dalton. 
"* Henry Tallman Davis. 
Amos Henry Farns worth. 
George Faulkner. 
Richard Frederic Fuller. 
Samuel Sewall Greeley. 
George Silsbee Hale, Sec. 
Shattuck Hartwell, Pres. 
^Horatio Nelson Hildreth, 

* George Howes. 

Henry Augustin Johnson. 
"^Robert Lemraon. 
Samuel Parker Lewis. 



George Homer Lord. 
James Morison. 
Francis Parkman, Vice-Pres. 
Joseph Peabody, Sec. 
Horatio Justus Perry. 
Robert Po<sac Rogers. 
Leverett Saltonstall. 
Frederick Adolphus Sawyer. 
Philip Howes Sears, Vice-Pres. 
Edmund Quincy Sewall. 
Daniel Denison Slade. 
Lafayette Smith. 
*Joseph Brown Sinitli. 
Charles Henry Boylston Snow. 
AYarren Til ton. 
James Monroe Tower. 
George Walker. 
Stephen Goodhue Wheatland. 
Edward Wheelwright. 
"^Charles Adams Whitcomb. 



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THE HASTY-PUDDIXG CLUB. 



In. 1842. Gr. 1844. 



Henry Bass Bullard. 

George Blankern Gary, Pres. 

and Orator, 
Henry Charles Chauncey. 
James Gordon Clarke. 
Robert Cod man. 

Charles William Dabney, V.-Pres. 
Henry Tallman Davis. 
Edmund Dwight. 
George Silsbee Hale, Orator. 
William Morris Plunt. 
Henry Augustin Johnson. 



George Francis Parkman, Kp. 
Francis Parkman, V.-Pres. and 

Pres. 
Joseph Peabody. 
Leverett Saltonstall. 
Frederick Adolphus Sawyer. 
Charles Henry Boylston Snow, 

Pres., Sec, and Poet. 
Joshua Clapp Stone. 
Warren Tilton, Sec. and Poet. 
Stephen Goodhue Wheatland. 
Edward Wheelwright. 



THE HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



George Washington Baker, 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


Thomas S. Blair, 


Pittsburg, Pa. 


Tappan Eustis Francis, 


Boston. 


Benjamin Apthorp Gould, 


Boston. 


Charles Frederic Heywood, 


Cambridge. 


Edward Sherman Hoar, 


Concord. 


George Homer Lord, 


Boston. 


Francis Parkman, 


Boston. 


Daniel Denison Slade, 


Boston. 


James Monroe Tower, 


Waterville, N. Y. 


George Walker, 


Burlington. 



COLLEGE SOCIETIES. 179 



THE PIEEIAX SODALITY. 



Members. 


Officers. 


Instruments. 


Leverett Saltonstall, 


y.-Pres. and Pres. 


Flute. 


Charles William Dabney, 


Y.-Pres. and See'y. 


Flute. 


Henry Bass Bullard, 




Flute. 


William Morris Hunt, 


Sec'y and Pres. 


Post-horn 



THE HAEYARD GLEE CLUB. 



John Call Dalton, 


Bass. 




William Pitt Denton, 


■-^Piano. 




Samuel Bradley Noyes, 


Tenor. 




Joseph Brown Smith, 


Falsetto, - 


- Piano 


Warren Tilton. 


Bass. 





THE PORCELLLY^ CLL"B, 

ly. 1842. Gr. 1844. 

Henry Charles Chauncey. 

James Gordon Clarke. 

Charles William Dabney, D. M'C. 

Henry Tallman Davis. 

William Morris Hunt. 

Leverett Saltonstall. 

Joshua Clapp Stone, 

Stephen Goodhue Wheatland, L. P. C. 

Edward Wheelwright. 



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THE $. B. K. 

[From the Catalogue for 1861.] 

"* George Blankern Gary. 
Henry Charles Chauncey. 
Charles William Dabney. 
John Call Dal ton. 
Edmund Dwighl. 

* Richard Frederick Fuller. 
Benjamin Apthorp Gould. 
George Silsbee Hale. 
Shattuck Hartwell. 
"^Horatio Nelson Hildreth. 
Henry Augus;tin Johnson. 
George Francis Parkman. 
Francis Parkman. 

Joseph Peabody. 
Horatio Justus Perry. 
Frederick Adolphus Sawyer. 
Philip Howes Sears. 
Charles Henry Boylston Snow. 

* Charles Adams Whitcomb. 
Edward Augustus Wild. 



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CLASS OFFICERS. 



For the Procession at the Funeral of President 
Harrison, April 20, 1841. 

Chief Marshal, Hunt. 
r Baldwin, 

Assistant Marshals, -{ ^' 

I G. F. Parkman, 

i R. D. Rocrers. 



FOR THE SOPHOMORE CLASS SUPPER. 
President, Clarke, 
r Gary, 
I Dabney, 
Vice-Presidents, ^ Hartwell, 
Prescott, 
Saltonstall. 

Poet, Snow. 
Toast-Master, Baldwin. 

Choristers, i -^ ^' 
( Tilton. 



For the Procession on the 17th of June, 1843, on the 
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument. 

Chief Marshal, G. F. Parkman. 
/- Wheatland, 
Assistant Marshals, < Stone, 

( E. Wheelwright. 



AMHk^tf^.aMeki 



182 THE CLASS OF 1844. 



CLASS OFFICERS 

Chosen at the Regular Election in the Senior Year. 

Orator for Class Day, 
George Blankern Gary. 

Poet for Class Day. 
Charles Henry Boylston Snow. 

Odist for Glass Day, 
Warren Tilton. 

Chaplain for Class Day. 
George Faulkner. 

First Marshal for Class Day and Commencement. 
Leverett Saltonstall. 

Second Marshal for Class Day and Commencement. 
Stephen Goodhue Wheatland. 

Class Secretary and Keeper of Class-Booh. 
Edward Wheelwright. 



FOR THE SENIOR CLASS SUPPER. 
President^ Perry. 

Vice-Presidents, \ ' ' 

( Peabody. 

Writer of Supper Song, Sayles. 

Toast- Master, Dabney. 

Choristers, \ ^ ^ ^^^l . , 
J. B. Smith. 



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CLASS SONG 



SENIORS OF M DCCC XLIY 



Tdxe — " Auld Lang Syne." 

I. 

Ye friends and mates of bygone years, 

The parting hour is nigh ; 
And now, with mingled hopes and fears, 

We meet to say Good by, — 

CHORUS. 

We meet to say Good by, my friends. 

We meet to say Good by. 
To drink the health, to grasp the hand, 

Of every brother nigh. 

II. 

We met in boyhood's early years, 
We 've grown, together, men ; 

And now we leave old Harvard's halls, 
To try the world again, — 



To try the world again, my friends, 

To try the world again ; 
She smiled so kindly on the boys, 

She '11 not forget the men. 

III. 
Then let us meet our untried fate, 

AVith earnest, trustful soul ; 
No common lot is ours, my friends, 

We '11 seek no common goal, — 



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We '11 seek no common goal, my friends, 
AVe '11 seek no common goal ; 

For those who kneel at learning's shrine 
Should show no common soul. 



Our lot can ne'er be all unblest, 

If in the world we find 
Some true and noble-hearted friends, 

Like those we leave behind, — 



CHORUS. 

Like those we leave behind, my friends, 

Like those we leave behind ; 
In form we part, but ne'er in heart. 

From friends of auld lang syne. 

V. 

Old age may leave its wintry frost 

On every manly brow ; 
May change our forms, but not the hearts. 

That throb so warmly now, — 

CHORUS. 

That throb so warmly now, my friends, 

That throb so warmly now ; 
Our hearts may be as young in love, 

Beneath the hoary brow. 

VI. 

One hearty grasp, one lingering gaze, 

Then fill your glasses high ; 
Drink hand in hand to bygone days. 

And then Good by, Good by ! — 

CHORUS. 

One hearty grasj), onr lingering gaze, 

Then fill your glasses high ; 
Drink hand in hand to bygone days, 

And then Good by, Good by ! 



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